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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

John Updike is born

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John Jakes is born

Explore: The Kent Family Chronicles, American Dreams

Charles Stevenson Wright is born

Geoffrey Hill is born

Explore: Geoffrey Hill, Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings

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

Christopher Okigbo is born

Explore: Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo, Christopher Okigbo

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

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Rosemary Rogers is born