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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров; 21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989) was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.
Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) [1] was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly ...
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January 1 – The publishing firm Jonathan Cape is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard.February – Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of The Little Review, are convicted of obscenity in a New York court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce's Ulysses.March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentinaafter a period living with his family in Europe.April 20 – The Hungarian Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadwayin English.Fiction
1. Elizabeth von Arnim - Vera 2. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa – "Autumn Mountain" (秋山, Akiyama) 3. Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Terrible 4. Karel Čapek – Trapné povídky (Embarrassing Stories, translated as Money and other stories) 5. Mary Cholmondeley – The Romance of His Life 6. Walter de la Mare – Memoirs of a Midget 7. Ethel M. Dell - The Obstacle Race 8. Mary Frances Dowdall – Three Loving Ladies 9. Edna Ferber - The Girls 10. Fran Saleški Finžgar – Pod svobodnim soncem(Under the free sun) 11...
Children and young people
1. Dorita Fairlie Bruce – The Senior Prefect (later entitled Dimsie Goes to School) 2. Eleanor Farjeon – Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 3. Charles Boardman Hawes – The Great Quest 4. Hendrik Willem van Loon – The Story of Mankind(non-fiction) 5. Else Ury – Nesthäkchen Flies From the Nest
Drama
1. Hjalmar Bergman – Farmor och vår Herre (Grandmother and Our Lord, translated as Thy Rod and Thy Staff) 2. Dorothy Brandon – Araminta Arrives 3. Karel Čapek – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)(performed) 4. Karel and Josef Čapek – Pictures from the Insects' Life (Ze života hmyzu, published) 5. Clemence Dane – A Bill of Divorcement 6. Brandon Fleming – The Eleventh Commandment 7. Gerald du Maurier – Bulldog Drummond(with H.C. McNeile) 8. Susan Glaspell – Inheritors (written) and The Verge(p...
January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (died 1990)January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime writer (died 1995)January 21 – Charles Eric Maine, English science fiction writer (died 1981)February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist author (died 2006)February 6 – Abba Goold Woolson, American author and poet (born 1838)February 17 – Rosetta Luce Gilchrist, American physician, author (born 1850)February 24 – John Habberton, American critic (born 1842)March 22 – E. W. Hornung, English author (born 1866)James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a MidgetJames Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lytton Strachey, Queen VictoriaNobel Prize in Literature: Anatole FrancePulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu BettEdition of 1921; disclaimer. POE, EDGAR ALLAN, an American poet and story-writer; born in Boston, Jan 19, 1809. Left an orphan early, he was adopted by John Allan, of Richmond, Va., and at the age of 19 left this home and published his first volume of verse at Boston. He was a cadet at the United States Military Academy, 1830-1831; and ...
Jan 14, 2020 · Jan. 14, 2020. Edith Wharton kept restlessly editing her best sellers even through numerous print runs. In 1921, she finished fine tuning “The Age of Innocence” upon its sixth printing and tucked...
Oct 19, 2017 · By Victor Sebestyen. Illustrated. 569 pp. Pantheon Books. $35. Can first-rate history read like a thriller? With “Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror,” the journalist Victor...
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was a British - American writer and moral philosopher and is in certain circles regarded as one of the greatest voices of the twentieth century.
