The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1949 Literary Facts
A republican form of government is established in India
James Gould Cozzens receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Guard of Honor
Peter Viereck receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Terror and Decorum: Poems, 1940-1948
Eugenio Montale publishes Volume II of his Poesie, entitled Le occasioni
A. B. Guthrie Jr. publishes The Way West
Dorothy L. Sayers publishes Hell, the first volume of her translation of Dante’s Divina Commedia
H. L. Mencken publishes A Mencken Chrestomathy
Peter Viereck publishes Terror and Decorum: Poems, 1940-1948
Gwendolyn Brooks publishes Annie Allen
Arthur Miller receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Death of a Salesman
William Faulkner receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Simone de Beauvoir publishes Le Deuxieme Sexe (The Second Sex)
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is produced
Shirley Jackson publishes The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris
James Reaney publishes The Red Heart
C. P. Snow publishes Time of Hope
Christopher Fry publishes The Lady’s Not for Burning
Victor Hernandez Cruz is born
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Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. dies
The Rodgers-and-Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based upon James A. Mitchener’s Tales of the South Pacific, is first performed
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Dorothy E. Allison is born
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Scott Turow is born
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Maurice Maeterlinck dies
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Jamaica Kincaid is born
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Ken Follett is born
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Jane Urquhart is born
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Nick Bantock is born
Richard Russo is born
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Jonathan Kellerman is born
Graham Swift is born
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Margaret Mitchell dies
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Martin Amis is born
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Beatrice Culleton is born
Kevin Major is born
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Jane Smiley is born
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Peter Ackroyd is born
Gayl Jones is born
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