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

1925 Literary Facts

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded

In the "Monkey Trial," Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes is tried for violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of Darwinian theory

The science of quantum mechanics is developed

Paul von Hindenburg becomes chancellor of Germany

Ellen Glasgow publishes Barren Ground

Edna Ferber receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for So Big

Sidney Howard receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for They Knew What They Wanted

George E. Kelly’s Craig’s Wife is first performed

Anita Loos publishes “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady

Frederick Philip Grove publishes Settlers of the Marsh

Countee Cullen publishes Color

Jacques Maritain publishes Troi Réformateurs: Luther-Descartes-Rousseau (Three Reformers: Luther-Descartes-Rousseau)

Conrad Aiken publishes Senlin: A Biography

John Milton Oskison publishes Wild Harvest: A Novel of Transition Days in Oklahoma

Sherwood Anderson publishes Dark Laughter

Bernard Shaw receives the Nobel Prize for Literature

Amy Lowell publishes What’ss O’Clock

John Dos Passos publishes Manhattan Transfer

F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby

Thomas Mann publishes Death in Venice and Other Stories

Theodore Dreiser publishes An American Tragedy

Sinclair Lewis publishes Arrowsmith

Harold Ross founds The New Yorker, publishing poetry, short fiction, cartoons, and columns related to “sophisticated” life

Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs. Dalloway

Kimitake Hiraoka (Yukio Mishima) is born

Explore: Fountains in the Rain, Yukio Mishima

Robert Cormier is born

Explore: The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Robert Cormier

Nina Bawden is born

Ernesto Cardenal is born

Explore: Ernesto Cardenal, Apocalypse

Jack Spicer is born

Explore: Jack Spicer

Russell Hoban is born

Explore: Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban

James Lane Allen dies

Alex La Guma is born

Explore: A Walk in the Night, Alex La Guma, Blankets

Kenneth Koch is born

Explore: Paradiso, Kenneth Koch

Flannery O’Connor is born

Explore: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is organized by A. Philip Randolph

Explore: Why did A. Philip Randolph organize the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and its long-term effect?

H. Rider Haggard dies

Explore: H. Rider Haggard, She/Ayesha

William Hoffman is born

Explore: William Hoffman

Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) is born

Explore: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Speeches of Malcolm X, Malcolm X

Rosario Castellanos is born

Explore: Cooking Lesson, Rosario Castellanos

William Styron is born

Explore: Sophie's Choice, William Styron

Frantz Fanon is born

Explore: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Brian Aldiss is born

Explore: Frankenstein Unbound, Brian W. Aldiss, Brian Aldiss

Donald Justice is born

Explore: Incident in a Rose Garden, Donald Justice, Men at Forty

Russell Baker is born

Explore: Russell Baker, Growing Up

John Hawkes is born

Explore: The Lime Twig, John Hawkes

Enrique Buenaventura is born

Forrest Carter is born

Explore: The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter

Gore Vidal is born

Explore: Visit to a Small Planet, Gore Vidal

Shana Alexander is born

Andrei Sinyavsky is born

Explore: Andrei Sinyavsky, Pkhentz

James Clavell is born

Explore: King Rat, Whirlwind, James Clavell

Elmore Leonard is born

Explore: Elmore Leonard, The Hot Kid

Charles Gordone is born

Explore: Charles Gordone

Frank D. Gilroy is born

Explore: The Subject Was Roses, Frank D. Gilroy

Dominick Dunne is born

Explore: The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

William F. Buckley Jr. is born

Wladyslaw Reymont dies

John A. Williams is born

Explore: John A. Williams

Carolyn Kizer is born

Explore: To an Unknown Poet, Carolyn Kizer, Bitch