The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1943 Literary Facts
Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels closes theaters and publishers in Germany
Albert Jay Nock publishes Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
Benito Mussolini is deposed; new Italian government declares war on Nazi Germany
Martin Flavin publishes Journey in the Dark
Wallace Stegner publishes The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Antoine de Saint-Exupery publishes Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)
Ayn Rand publishes The Fountainhead
Pete Dexter is born
Kenneth Patchen publishes Cloth of the Tempest
Upton Sinclair receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Dragon’s Teeth
Jean-Paul Sartre publishes L’etre et le neant: Essai d’ontologie phenomenologique (Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology)
The Pulitzer Prize in poetry is awarded to the late Stephen Vincent Benét for Western Star
Peter Straub is born
Explore: Ghost Story, Peter Straub
Stephen Vincent Benét dies
Louise Gluck is born
Explore: The Mystery, Lamentations, The School Children, Louise Glück
Thomas King is born
Explore: Green Grass, Running Water, Medicine River, Thomas King
Pat(ricia) Barker is born
Explore: Union Street, Pat Barker
Michael Palmer is born
The 70,000 Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto are liquidated by German occupation forces after an unsuccessful uprising
Explore: Holocaust Represented in Literature
Nikki Giovanni is born
Explore: Nikki Giovanni
Reinaldo Arenas is born
Explore: The Palace of the White Skunks
Tess Gallagher is born
Explore: I Stop Writing the Poem, Tess Gallagher
Steven Millhauser is born
Explore: The Knife Thrower, Eisenheim the Illusionist, Steven Millhauser
LaVyrle Spencer is born
Nelson DeMille is born
H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) is born
Sam Shepard is born
Explore: True West, A Lie of the Mind, Sam Shepard
Sue Miller is born
Susan Isaacs is born
Explore: After All These Years, Magic Hour, Susan Isaacs
James Tate is born
Explore: Smart and Final Iris, James Tate, The Lost Pilot
Michael Ondaatje is born
Explore: The English Patient, Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
Beatrix Potter dies