The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1926 Literary Facts
Franz Kafka’s Das Schloss (The Castle)
Langston Hughes publishes The Weary Blues
A. A. Milne publishes Winnie-the-Pooh
Sinclair Lewis receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Arrowsmith (declined)
Establishment of the “Book-of-the-Month Club;” Club sells discounted editions to subscribers
André Gide publishes Les faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters)
Colette publishes La Fin de Cheri (The Last of Cheri)
Dorothy Parker publishes Enough Rope
Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
The Pulitzer Prize in poetry is awarded posthumously to Amy Lowell for What’s O’Clock (postumously)
The airship Norge flies over the North Pole
Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
The Bible and The Koran are barred from importation into the Soviet Union; existing copies are removed from library shelves
G. K. Chesterton publishes The Everlasting Man
George E. Kelly receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Craig’s Wife
NBC, the first radio network, is formed
Louis Bromfield publishes Early Autumn
Leonora Speyer publishes Fiddler’s Farewell
Isaak (Emmanuilovich) Babel publishes Red Cavalry
W. D. Snodgrass is born
Explore: W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle
Margaret Laurence is born
Explore: The Stone Angel, The Diviners, Margaret Laurence
Thomas Tryon is born
Explore: Thomas Tryon
A. R. Ammons is born
Explore: The City Limits, A. R. Ammons, Corsons Inlet, Easter Morning
James Merrill is born
Explore: Lost in Translation, James Merrill
John Fowles is born
Explore: The Magus, The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
Anne McCaffrey is born
Explore: Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
H. L. Mencken is arrested for selling a copy of The American Mercury to the secretary of the Boston Watch and Ward Society; the offending issue contained the story “Hatrack,” which the Society deemed obscene
Explore: H. L. Mencken, The American Mercury
Harper Lee is born
Explore: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Fidel Castro is born
Peter Shaffer is born
Explore: Equus, Amadeus, Peter Shaffer
Robert Creeley is born
Explore: Fading Light, Robert Creeley, I Know a Man
Allen Ginsberg is born
Explore: Howl, Allen Ginsberg, How does Allen Ginsberg incorporate social issues of the postwar era into his writing?
Frank O’Hara is born
Explore: A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island, Selected Poems
Frederick Buechner is born
Explore: Godric, Frederick Buechner
Alice (Boyd) Adams is born
Explore: The Last Lovely City, Greyhound People, Alice Adams
James Reaney is born
Explore: Colours in the Dark, James Reaney
Alison Lurie is born
Explore: Only Children, Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
Rudolf Eucken dies
John Knowles is born
Explore: A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Evan Hunter is born
Explore: The Blackboard Jungle, Evan Hunter
Michel Foucault is born
Explore: Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Edward Lewis Wallant is born
Explore: The Tenants of Moonbloom, Edward Lewis Wallant
John Gardner is born
Explore: John Gardner
Poul (William) Anderson is born
Rainer Maria Rilke dies
Explore: Childhood, Archaic Torso of Apollo, Letters to a Young Poet