The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1948 Literary Facts
Ernesto Sábato publishes El túnel (The Tunnel)
Thomas Merton publishes The Seven Storey Mountain
Thor Heyerdahl publishes Kon-Tiki Ekspedisjonen (Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft)
René Char publishes Fureur et mystère
Ronald Frederick Delderfield publishes Worm’s Eye View
A. M. Klein publishes The Rocking Chair, and Other Poems
James A. Michener receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Tales of the South Pacific
Harold Robbins publishes Never Love a Stranger
T. S. Eliot receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Approximately 135 million paperback books are sold in the U.S.
W. H. Auden receives Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Age of Anxiety
Jeanette Armstrong is born
Norman Mailer publishes The Naked and the Dead
Henry Kreisel publishes The Rich Man
Sidney Sheldon publishes Easter Parade
Robert E. Sherwood receives the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for Roosevelt and Hopkins
Alan Paton publishes Cry, the Beloved Country
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights if framed by the United Nations, holding that all people are entitled to the right of free expression
B. F. Skinner publishes Walden Two
Richard M. Weaver publishes Ideas Have Consequences
Truman Capote publishes Other Voices, Other Rooms
Ezra Pound publishes The Pisan Cantos
Sir Winston Churchill publishesThe Second World War, in six volumes
Eugenio Montale publishes Volume I of his Poesie, entitled Ossi di seppia
James Gould Cozzens publishes Guard of Honor
Mohandas K. Gandhi is assassinated
David Edgar is born
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Antonin Artaud dies
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Leslie Marmon Silko is born
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is born
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Kathy Acker is born
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Charles Johnson is born
Wendy Rose is born
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Claude McKay dies
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Gertrude Atherton dies
Ian McEwan is born
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Dan Simmons is born
Denise Chávez is born
Felix Paul Greve (Frederick Philip Grove) dies
Vonda McIntyre is born
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Ntozake Shange is born
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T. Coraghessan Boyle is born
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