The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1937 Literary Facts
The German airship Hindenberg explodes and burns at Lakehurst, New Jersey
Josef Stalin disposes of his political enemies in a series of show trials
Neville Chamberlain is named Prime Minister of Great Britain
The Golden Gate Bridge is completed in San Francisco, California
Roger Martin du Gard receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Eyvind Johnson publishes Volume IV of his tetralogy Romanem om Olaf, entitled Slutspel i ungdomen
Yasunari Kawabata publishes Yukiguni (Snow Country)
Marya Zaturenska publishes Cold Morning Sky
Caroline Gordon publishes None Shall Look Back
Wyndham Lewis publishes The Revenge for Love
Paul Green mounts The Lost Colony, America’s first outdoor drama, on Roanoke Island, North Carolina
John Kennedy Toole is born
Wallace Stegner publishes Remembering Laughter
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s You Can’t Take It With You is produced
Nicolás Guillén publishes Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas
Nicanor Parra publishes Cancionero sin nombre
Stevie Smith publishes A Good Time Was Had by All
John Steinbeck publishes Of Mice and Men
J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
Sterling Brown publishes Negro Poetry and Drama
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama for You Can’t Take It With You
Zora Neale Hurston publishes Their Eyes Were Watching God
Margaret Mitchell receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind
Joseph Wambaugh is born
Explore: Joseph Wambaugh, Hollywood Station
Of Mice and Men is published.
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Maryse Conde is born
Explore: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Maryse Condé
Horacio Quiroga dies
Explore: The Dead Man, Horacio Quiroga
Claude Brown is born
Explore: Manchild in the Promised Land, Claude Brown
H. P. Lovecraft dies
Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina is born
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Lanford Wilson is born
Explore: Burn This, Hot L Baltimore, Talley's Folly, Lanford Wilson
Thomas Pynchon is born
Explore: Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, Entropy
Arthur Kopit is born
Explore: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, Indians, Arthur Kopit
Roch Carrier is born
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Robert Fulghum is born
Explore: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Gail Godwin is born
Explore: Dream Children, Gail Godwin, A Sorrowful Woman
Sir James M. Barrie dies
Explore: Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, J. M. Barrie
Anita Desai is born
Explore: Anita Desai, Games at Twilight, A Devoted Son
Luis Omar Salinas is born
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Tom Stoppard is born
Explore: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard, How does chaos theory emerge as a theme in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia?
Bessie Head is born
Explore: Snapshots of a Wedding, Life, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather
Hunter S. Thompson is born
Diane Wakoski is born
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Marvin Bell is born
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Edith Wharton dies
Explore: Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, Roman Fever, Edith Wharton
Walter Dean Myers is born
Explore: Fallen Angels, Monster, Walter Dean Myers
Rudolfo Anaya is born
Explore: Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
Brian Lumley is born
Donald Goines is born