The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1946 Literary Facts
Jacques Audiberti’s play Quoat-Quoat is first produced
Civil war rages in China between Mao Tse-tung’s communists and Koumintang forces under Chiang Kai-shek; in the end, Mao’s Reds triumph
The first electronic supercomputer, called Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer (ENIAC) is developed
Stung by the published criticisms of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian dictator Juan Perón appoints Borges to a position as poultry inspector for the Buenos Aires Municipal Market
P. G. Wodehouse publishes Joy in the Morning
Eudora Welty publishes Delta Wedding
Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama for State of the Union
Benjamin Spock publishes The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay’s drama State of the Union is first performed
Malcolm Cowley publishes the Viking Portable Faulkner, a work which rejuvenated the critical reputation of William Faulkner
Christopher Isherwood publishes The Berlin Stories
Frank Yerby publishes The Foxes of Harrow
Hermann Hesse receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Robert Lowell publishes Lord Weary’s Castle
Carson McCullers publishes The Member of the Wedding
Terence Rattigan publishes The Winslow Boy
Robert Penn Warren publishes All the King’s Men
Miguel Angel Asturias publishes El senor presidente (The President)
Alejo Carpentier publishes La musica en Cuba
Robert E. Sherwood’s screenplay for The Best Years of Our Lives is brought to the motion-picture screen by RKO Studios
Elizabeth Bishop publishes North & South
Owen Dodson publishes Powerful Long Ladder
Countee Cullen dies
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Julian Barnes is born
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Marcio Souza is born
Winston Churchill delivers his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri
Booth Tarkington dies
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Gerhart Hauptmann dies
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Stephen Coonts is born
Larry Shue is born
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Gertrude Stein dies
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H. G. Wells dies
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Harley Granville-Barker dies
Susan Elaine Townsend is born
The Nuremburg War Crimes Trials end; twelve defendents are sentenced to death by hanging, three to life imprisonment, four to lesser prison terms, and three acquitted
Tim O’Brien is born
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Lewis Grizzard is born
Alan Dean Foster is born
Andrei Codrescu is born
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Eric Van Lustbader is born