The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1932 Literary Facts
George S. Kaufman’s Of Thee I Sing is produced
Black Elk’s Black Elk Speaks (as told to John G. Neihardt) is published
Archibald MacLeish publishes Conquistador
Pearl S. Buck receives Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Good Earth
John Galsworthy receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
George S. Kaufman receives the Pulitzer Prizes in drama for Of Thee I Sing
Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World
Gunnar Ekeloef publishes Sent Pa Jorden: Dikter, 1927-1931 (Late Arrival on Earth: Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekeloef)
Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road
Worldwide economic depression deepens, with 30 million unemployed persons in the industrial world
“Bonus-Marchers’” encampment in Washington, D.C. is dispersed by U.S. troops under Douglas MacArthur
In German election, the Nazi Party gains a majority of seats in the Reichstag
George Dillon receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Flowering Stone
Mikhail Sholokhov publishes Podniataia tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned)
François Mauriac publishes Le noeud de viperes (Vipers Tangle)
Frans Eemil Sillanpää publishes Miehen tie
T. S. Stribling publishes The Store
F. R. Leavis founds the influential literary quarterly Scrutiny at the University of Cambridge
John Dos Passos publishes 1919, the second volume in his “U.S.A.” trilogy
George Jean Nathan founds The American Spectator, joined in this endeavor by Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Boyd, Eugene O’Neill, and James Branch Cabell
Jean Little is born
Umberto Eco is born
Explore: The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Robert Coover is born
Explore: The Brother, The Babysitter, Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
John Updike is born
Explore: John Updike
John Jakes is born
Explore: The Kent Family Chronicles, American Dreams
Hart Crane dies
Explore: My Grandmother's Love Letters, The Bridge, The theme of Hart Crane’s “My Grandmother’s Love Letters.”
Arnold Wesker is born
Explore: Chicken Soup with Barley, Chips with Everything, The Kitchen, Arnold Wesker
Linda Pastan is born
Explore: Ethics, The Cossacks, Linda Pastan, What is the overall tenor and tone of Linda Pastan's poem "Ethics"?
Charles Stevenson Wright is born
Athol Fugard is born
Explore: Valley Song, Athol Fugard, How do Athol Fugard's works depict his social vision?
Geoffrey Hill is born
Alexandre Biyidi (“Mongo Beti”) is born
Explore: The Poor Christ of Bomba, Mongo Beti
George Ryga is born
Explore: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, George Ryga
Fernando Arrabal is born
Explore: Fernando Arrabal, Is "Picnic on the Battlefield" by Fernando Arrabal an Absurd Play?
Christopher Okigbo is born
V. S. Naipaul is born
Explore: A House for Mr. Biswas, Miguel Street, V. S. Naipaul
Vassily Aksyonov is born
Explore: Vassily Aksyonov, Little Whale, Varnisher of Reality
Melvin Van Peebles is born
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Malcolm Bradbury is born
Explore: Eating People Is Wrong, The History Man, Malcolm Bradbury
Robert B. Parker is born
Explore: Hush Money, Robert B. Parker
Sylvia Plath is born
Explore: Blackberrying, Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath
Charles W. Chesnutt dies
Explore: Charles W. Chesnutt
Rosemary Rogers is born