Check out some important literary events that have anniversaries this month.
2/1/1902:
Langston Hughes is born in Joplin, Missouri. Langston Hughes was one of many talented African American artists to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance.
2/2/1922:
On James Joyce's 40th birthday, Ulysses is published.
2/4/1938:
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town opens.
2/7/1812:
Charles Dickens was born on this day in Portsmouth, England. Though it took him less than three weeks to write, A Christmas Carol remains one of the most beloved stories of all time. Find out other interesting facts about Dickens.
2/7/1885:
Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1930), is born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. For biographical information and a list of works by Sinclair Lewis, visit this site, which will also link you to other twentieth-century Nobel Prize winners.
2/8/1944:
Alice Walker, winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Color Purple, is born.
2/10/1778:
After 28 years in exile, Voltaire returns to Paris to attend a production of his play, Irene.
2/17/1929:
Chaim Potok is born in New York, New York.
2/26/1802:
French poet and novelist, Victor Hugo, is born. Check out trivia, bibliographies, and criticism on Hugo at Victor Hugo Central.
2/27/1807:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is born in Portland, Maine. Get more information on Longfellow.
