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1928 Literary Facts
Penicillin is discovered by Alexander Fleming
Amelia Earhardt becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed, outlawing war
Josef Stalin announces the first Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union
Chinese communist resistance to Chiang Kai-shek is organized in Hunan Province
The first television broadcasts are aired
The power of the Chinese provincial warlords is overthrown, and China is united, with Chiang Kai-shek as president of the republic
Robert Frost publishes West-Running Brook
Julia Peterkin publishes Scarlet Sister Mary
Morley Callaghan publishes Strange Fugitive
Evelyn Waugh publishes Decline and Fall
A. A. Milne publishes The House at Pooh Corner
André Breton publishes Nadja
Luther Standing Bear publishes My People the Sioux
Thornton Wilder receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Sigrid Undset receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Stephen Vincent Benét publishes John Brown’s Body
Jorge Luis Borges publishes El idioma de los argentinos
Erich Maria Remarque publishes Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Rudolph Fisher publishes The Walls of Jericho
Jorge Guillén publishes Cantico
Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is written
Iain Crichton Smith is born
Camara Laye is born
Explore: The Dark Child, The Guardian of the Word, Camara Laye
William Peter Blatty is born
Explore: The Exorcist, Legion, William Peter Blatty
Philip Levine is born
Explore: Philip Levine, What Work Is
Thomas Hardy dies
Explore: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, The Poetry of Hardy
William Kennedy is born
Explore: Ironweed, William Kennedy
Harry G(rover) Allard, Jr. is born
Vicente Blasco Ibañez dies
Explore: Blood and Sand, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Andrew M. Greeley is born
Explore: Fall from Grace, Summer at the Lake, Andrew M(oran) Greeley
Robert Newton Peck is born
Explore: A Day No Pigs Would Die, Dukes, Robert Newton Peck
Gabriel García Márquez is born
Explore: News of a Kidnapping, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
Edward Albee is born
Explore: Three Tall Women, The American Dream, Edward Albee
Maya Angelou is born
Explore: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Cynthia Ozick is born
Explore: The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick
Charles Alan Reich is born
William Trevor Cox is born
Explore: The News from Ireland, After Rain, William Trevor, The Ballroom of Romance
Ernesto (Che) Guevara is born
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James L. Collier is born
Explore: My Brother Sam Is Dead, Summary of Main Events in "My Brother Sam Is Dead"
David Mercer is born
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Anita Brookner is born
Explore: Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
Robert M. Pirsig is born
Explore: Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
William X. Kienzle is born
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Donald Hall is born
Explore: Names of Horses, Donald Hall
Edouard Glissant is born
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Elie Wiesel is born
Explore: Night, Dawn, Elie Wiesel
Alvin Toffler is born
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Jayanta Mahapatra is born
Anne Sexton is born
Explore: Courage, Anne Sexton
Carlos Fuentes is born
Explore: The Campaign, Distant Relations, Carlos Fuentes
Chingiz (Torekulovich) Aitmatov is born
Philip K. Dick is born
Explore: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick, The Minority Report