The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

Mulk Raj Anand publishes Untouchable

Enid Bagnold publishes National Velvet

Maxwell Anderson’s Winterset is produced

Muriel Rukeyser publishes Theory of Flight

Vicente Aleixandre publishes La destruccion o el amor (Destruction or Love: A Selection from La destruccion o el amor of Vicente Aleixandre)

Clifford Odets’s Waiting for Lefty [and] Till the Day I Die: Two Plays are produced

C. P. Cavafy’s Poiemata is published

Isaac Bashevis Singer publishes Der Satan in Gorey (Satan in Goray)

Clive Barker publishes Poems

Louis MacNeice publishes Poems

Frank Marshall Davis publishes Black Man’s Verse

Albert Jay Nock publishes Our Enemy the State

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law

Military service is made compulsory in Germany

Laws to severely restrict the rights of Jews, the “Nuremberg Laws,” take effect in Germany

Italian forces attack and conquer Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

The government of Persia changes the nation’s name to Iran

Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren found The Southern Review at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge

Italian forces invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophical works are banned in the Soviet Union

Ellen Glasgow publishes Vein of Iron

Josephine W. Johnson receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Now in November

Zoe Akins receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Old Maid

Audrey Wurdemann receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Bright Ambush

Elias Canetti publishes Die Blendung (Auto-da-Fe)

Eyvind Johnson publishes Volume II of his tetralogy Romanem om Olaf, entitled Haer har du ditt liv!

Harold Lenoir Davis publishes Honey in the Horn

Thomas Wolfe publishes Of Time and the River

Zoë Akins’s drama The Old Maid is first performed

Robert P. Tristram Coffin publishes Strange Holiness

David Lodge is born

Explore: Changing Places, Small World, David Lodge, Nice Work

Richard Brautigan is born

Explore: Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar, A Confederate General from Big Sur

Kenzaburo Oe is born

Explore: Kenzaburō Ōe

Robert Silverberg is born

Jay Wright is born

Explore: The Albuquerque Graveyard

Susan Brownmiller is born

Explore: Susan Brownmiller

Ellen Gilchrist is born

Explore: Victory over Japan, In The Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist

Joseph A. Walker is born

Explore: The River Niger, Joseph A. Walker

John Pepper Clark is born

Explore: The Raft, John Pepper Clark

Edwin Arlington Robinson dies

Explore: Richard Cory, Mr. Flood's Party, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Hyemeyohsts Storm is born

Explore: Hyemeyohsts Storm

W. P. Kinsella is born

Explore: Shoeless Joe, The Fencepost Chronicles, W. P. Kinsella, Exploring the central conflict, theme, and plot of "Shoeless Joe."

Carol Shields is born

Explore: The Republic of Love, Carol Shields

Joy Nozomi Kogawa is born

Explore: Obasan, Joy Kogawa, In Kogawa's Obasan, what does Stephen mean when he says "We are both the enemy and not the enemy"?

Françoise Quoirez (Sagan) is born

Explore: Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan

Larry Kramer is born

Explore: The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer

Ed Bullins is born

Explore: Ed Bullins

George William Russell (“A.E.”) dies

Explore: Homeward

Will Rogers dies

Explore: Will Rogers

E. Annie Proulx is born

Explore: The Half-Skinned Steer, The Shipping News, Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx

Charles Wright is born

Explore: Charles Wright

Henri Barbusse dies

Explore: Under Fire

Eldridge Cleaver is born

Explore: Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver

Mary Oliver is born

Explore: Mary Oliver, The Black Walnut Tree, Red Bird

The German Reichstag passes the “Nuremburg Laws,” stripping German-born Jews of their citizenship and barring them from marrying Aryans or flying the German flag

Ken Kesey is born

Explore: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey

Thomas Keneally is born

Explore: Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally

Ann Rule is born

Fernando Pessoa dies

Explore: Fernando Pessoa

Woody Allen is born

Explore: The Kugelmass Episode, Woody Allen, The Whore of Mensa

David Hackett Fischer is born

Explore: Albion's Seed, Washington's Crossing