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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

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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

Dario Fo is born

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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

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

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Poul (William) Anderson is born

Rainer Maria Rilke dies

Explore: Childhood, Archaic Torso of Apollo, Letters to a Young Poet