Calendar of 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 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 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 , April Inventory , Heart's Needle ) (January 5)
Margaret Laurence is born. (Explore: The Stone Angel , The Diviners , Margaret Laurence ) (January 5)
Thomas Tryon is born. (Explore: The Wings of the Morning , The Night of the Moonbow , Thomas Tryon ) (January 14)
A. R. Ammons is born. (Explore: The City Limits , A. R. Ammons , Corsons Inlet , Easter Morning ) (March 18)
James Merrill is born. (Explore: Lost in Translation , After Greece , James Merrill ) (March 3)
Dario Fo is born. (Explore: Dario Fo , Mistero Buffo: Comic Mysteries , Archangels Don't Play Pinball ) (March 24)
John Fowles is born. (Explore: The Magus , The Collector , The French Lieutenant's Woman , John Fowles ) (March 31)
Anne McCaffrey is born. (Explore: Dragonsong , Dragonflight Trilogy , Anne McCaffrey ) (April 1)
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 ) (April 5)
Harper Lee is born. (Explore: To Kill a Mockingbird , Harper Lee , Why did Harper Lee name this book To Kill a Mockingbird?
, What influenced Harper Lee to write the novel To Kill a Mockingbird? ) (April 28)
Fidel Castro is born. (Explore: Fidel Castro , Who is Fidel Castro? ) (May 13)
Peter Shaffer is born. (Explore: Equus , Amadeus , Peter Shaffer ) (May 15)
Robert Creeley is born. (Explore: Fading Light , Robert Creeley , The Rain , I Know a Man ) (May 21)
Allen Ginsberg is born. (Explore: Howl , Allen Ginsberg , How does Allen Ginsberg incorporate social issues in his writing?The postwar... ) (June 3)
Frank O’Hara is born. (Explore: A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island , In Memory of My Feelings , Selected Poems ) (June 27)
Frederick Buechner is born. (Explore: Godric , Frederick Buechner ) (July 11)
Alice (Boyd) Adams is born. (Explore: The Last Lovely City , Greyhound People , Alice Adams ) (August 14)
James Reaney is born. (Explore: Colours in the Dark , The Killdeer , James Reaney ) (September 1)
Alison Lurie is born. (Explore: Only Children , Foreign Affairs , Alison Lurie ) (September 3)
Rudolf Eucken dies. (Explore: Rudolf Christoph Eucken ) (September 15)
John Knowles is born. (Explore: A Separate Peace , A Vein of Riches , John Knowles ) (September 16)
Evan Hunter is born. (Explore: The Blackboard Jungle , Evan Hunter ) (October 15)
Michel Foucault is born. (Explore: Michel Foucault , Madness and Civilization , Discipline and Punish ) (October 15)
Edward Lewis Wallant is born. (Explore: The Pawnbroker , The Tenants of Moonbloom , Edward Lewis Wallant ) (October 19)
John Gardner is born. (Explore: Freddy's Book , The Art of Living , John Gardner ) (November 20)
Poul (William) Anderson is born (November 25)
Robert Bly is born. (Explore: Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter , The Teeth Mother Naked at Last , Iron John , Robert Bly , What does the poem, "Prayer for My Father," by Robert Bly, mean? In other... ) (December 23)
Rainer Maria Rilke dies. (Explore: Childhood , Archaic Torso of Apollo , Letters to a Young Poet , Maria Rainer Rilke ) (December 29)