The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1918 Literary Facts
The posthumous Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins is published
Willa Cather publishes My Ántonia
César Vallejo publishes Los heraldos negros (The Black Heralds)
The authorities of the U.S. Post Office burn installments of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Michel de Ghelderode publishes La mort regarde a la fenetre
The U.S. Congress passes the Sedition Act of 1918, which criminalizes the saying, printing, writing, or publishing anything abusive, profane, or disloyal about the American military cause in World War I
The Russian Civil War occurs, pitting the Bolsheviks (Reds) against the anti-Communist Whites
A worldwide epidemic of Spanish Influenza kills an estimated 22 million persons
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed in Siberia by order of V. I. Lenin
Longtime monarchies Austria and Germany become republics
Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary become independent states
The first Nobel Prize for literature is awarded to Ernest Poole for receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for His Family
Jesse Lynch Williams receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Why Marry?
Booth Tarkington publishes The Magificent Ambersons
Muriel Spark is born
Explore: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, The Black Madonna
Under the facilitation of W. E. B. Du Bois, the first Pan-African Congress is held in Paris, France
Explore: W. E. B. Du Bois
Theodore Sturgeon is born
Explore: The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast, Godbody, More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
Frank Wedekind dies
Explore: Spring Awakening
Henry Adams dies
William Hope Hodgson dies
Margaret Avison is born
Juan Rulfo is born
Explore: Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, Because We Are So Poor
P. H. Newby is born
Explore: P. H. Newby
Ernest Hemingway is seriously wounded during an Austrian assault on the Italian Front, in World War I
Explore: A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Nelson Mandela is born
Explore: Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Edwin O’Connor is born
Explore: The Last Hurrah, Edwin O'Connor
Allen Drury is born
Juan José Arreola is born
Explore: The Switchman, Juan José Arreola
Russell Kirk is born
Explore: Russell Kirk
Wilfred Owen dies
Explore: Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
Guillaume Apollinaire dies
Explore: Always, Guillaume Apollinaire
World War I ends when German military officials surrender and sign the Armistice
Madeleine L’Engle is born
Edmond Rostand dies
Explore: Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is born
Explore: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A. W. Purdy is born
Explore: A(lfred) W(ellington) Purdy