The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1929 Literary Facts
Thomas Mann receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
H. E. Bates publishes Seven Tales and Alexander
Robert Bridges publishes The Testament of Beauty
Martin Luther King Jr. is born
Virginia Woolf publishes A Room of One’s Own
Louise Bogan publishes Dark Summer
Thomas Wolfe publishes Look Homeward, Angel
Georgette Heyer publishes Beauvallet
C. Day Lewis publishes Transitional Poem
Stephen Vincent Benét receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for John Brown’s Body
Paul Green’s In Abraham’s Bosom is produced
Wallace Thurman publishes Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem
William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms
Will Rogers publishes Ether and Me
Federico García Lorca publishes Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads)
Elmer Rice receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Street Scene
The American Stock Market crashes in October, bringing on the Great Depression
The Great Depression grips the United States, with many Americans out of work and federal make-work programs instituted
Owen Barfield publishes Poetic Diction
The Jazz Singer, the first motion-picture with sound, signals the end of the silent era in film
Importation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions is banned by the U.S. Customs Service
Julia Peterkin receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Scarlet Sister Mary
Oliver La Farge publishes Laughing Boy
Sinclair Lewis publishes Dodsworth
Margery Allingham publishes The Crime at Black Dudley (published in the U.S. as The Black Dudley Murder), in which she introduces her most famous character, Albert Campion
Elmer Rice’s Street Scene is first produced
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Rolando Hinojosa-Smith is born
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Jules Feiffer is born
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Vladimir Mayakovsky produces his drama Klop (The Bedbug)
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In Chicago, seven members of George (“Bugs”) Moran’s North Side Gang are executed by minions of gangster Al Capone, in an event known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Chaim Potok is born
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Leonard Cyril Deighton is born
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Ralph McInerny is born
Milan Kundera is born
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Paule Marshall is born
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Imre Kertesz is born
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G. Cabrera Infante is born
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George Steiner is born
Antonine Maillet is born
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Adrienne Rich is born
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Bliss Carman dies
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Anne Frank is born
Brigid Brophy is born
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Michael Shaara is born
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Shirley Ann Grau is born
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Basil H. Johnston is born
Hugo von Hofmannsthal dies
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Jean Shepherd is born
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Harry Patterson is born
A(lfred) Alvarez is born
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Maurice Kenny is born
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Ira Levin is born
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Jesse Lynch Williams dies
Ursula K. Le Guin is born
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Marilyn French is born
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John Osborne is born
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Howard Sackler is born
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Mary Higgins (Clark) is born
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