The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

Edith Wharton publishes The Age of Innocence

Edward Thomas’s Collected Poems is published

Lawrence Sanders is born

F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes This Side of Paradise

Tristan Tzara publishes La coeur a gaz (The Gas Heart)

Edna St. Vincent Millay publishes A Few Figs From Thistles: Poems and Four Sonnets

Colette publishes Cheri

Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon is produced

Zona Gale publishes Miss Lulu Bett

Alfonsina Storni publishes Languidez

Angelina Weld Grimke publishes Rachel

Katherine Mansfield publishes Bliss, and Other Stories

Sigrid Undset publishes Kristin Lavransdatter

Wilfred Owen’s Poems is published

Mohandas K. Gandhi publishes Swaraj and Non-Cooperation

Karel Čapek publishes R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots

The Freeman is founded by Albert Jay Nock, who edits the magazine until it folds in 1924

Station KDKA in Pittsburgh makes the first commercial radio broadcast

Floyd Dell publishes Moon-Calf

Sherwood Anderson publishes Poor White

Knut Hamsun receives the Nobel Prize for Literature

The Eighteenth Amendment is enacted, oulawing the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the U.S; the Prohibition Era sees the rise of organized crime, as opportunistic gangsters manufacture and sell spirits to a willing public

Grazia Deledda publishes La madre (The Mother)

Jacques Maritain publishes Art et scolastique (Art and Scholasticism)

J. Thomas Looney publishes “Shakespeare” Identified in Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and the Poems of Edward De Vere, the founding document of Oxfordian Shakespeare scholarship

Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street

Isaac Asimov is born

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Joao Cabral de Melo Neto is born

Eugene O’Neill's first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, opens at the Morosco Theater.

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Alex Comfort is born

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Howard Nemerov is born

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Arthur Hailey is born

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Richard Adams is born

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William Dean Howells dies

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Paul Valéry publishes Le Cimetiere marin (The Graveyard by the Sea) in the periodical Nouvelle Revue Française

Amy Clampitt is born

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Amos Tutuola is born

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Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Society holds its national convention in New York

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Phyllis Dorothy James White (P. D. James) is born

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Charles Bukowski is born

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Ray Bradbury is born

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Mario Benedetti is born

Frank Herbert is born

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Alice Childress is born

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Mario Puzo is born

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Timothy Leary is born

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Dick Francis is born

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Paul Antschel is born

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Rosemary Sutcliff is born

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