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Overview of the events of 1926 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1926 .
February 8 – Seán O'Casey 's play The Plough and the Stars Abbey Theatre , Dublin . At the February 11 performance there is a near-riot: one audience member strikes an actress.[1]
February 12 – The Irish Free State Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins , appoints a Committee on Evil Literature .
February 26 – The future English novelist Graham Greene is received into the Catholic Church .
April 1 – Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories
May 11 – C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien first meet in Oxford.[2]
October 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov 's novel The White Guard Rossiya before the magazine's suppression earlier in the year, opens as a dramatic adaptation, The Days of the Turbins , at the Moscow Art Theatre . It is enjoyed by Stalin .
October 14 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne first appears, published by Methuen in London.
December 3 – The English detective story writer Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey . On December 14 she is found at a Harrogate hotel by the journalist Ritchie Calder , staying under her husband's mistress's surname.
December – Thomas Mann begins writing Die Geschichten Jaakobs in Munich , first of the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers Joseph und seine Brüder ), on which he will work until January 1943 .
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January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass , American poet (died 2009 )
January 12 – Shumon Miura , Japanese novelist (died 2017 )
January 13 – Michael Bond , English fiction writer and creator of Paddington Bear (died 2017 )[4]
January 14 – Tom Tryon , American actor and novelist (died 1991 )
January 27 – Fritz Spiegl , Austrian-born musician and writer (died 2003 )[5]
February 3 – Richard Yates , American novelist (died 1992 )
February 8 – Neal Cassady , American writer and poet (died 1968 )
February 20 – Richard Matheson , American science fiction writer (died 2013 )
March 3 – James Merrill , American poet (died 1995 )
March 7 – Chemmanam Chacko , Indian poet (died 2018 )
March 24 – Dario Fo , Italian dramatist and actor (died 2016 )[6]
March 27 – Frank O'Hara , American poet (died 1966 )
March 31 – John Fowles , English novelist (died 2005 )[7]
April 3 – Luís de Sttau Monteiro , Portuguese novelist and dramatist (died 1993 )
April 12 – Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov , Chechen ethnographer (died 2018 )
April 13 – Egon Wolff , Chilean dramatist (died 2016 )
April 23
April 28 – Harper Lee , American novelist (died 2016 )[8]
April 30 – Edmund Cooper , British poet and author (died 1982 )[9]
May 15 – English twins
May 21 – Robert Creeley , American author (died 2005 )
June 3 – Allen Ginsberg , American Beat Generation poet (died 1997 )[10]
June 4 – Ain Kaalep , Estonian poet, playwright and critic (died 2020 )
June 13
June 19 – Giangiacomo Feltrinelli , Italian publisher (died 1972 )
July 7 – Spencer Holst , American writer and storyteller (died 2001 )
July 11 – Frederick Buechner , American author and minister (died 2022)
July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings , English poet (died 2001 )
August 6 – Elisabeth Beresford , English children's author (died 2010 )[11]
August 12 – Wallace Markfield , American comic novelist (died 2002 )
August 13 – Roy Heath , Guyanese novelist (died 2008 )[12]
August 14
September 3 – Alison Lurie , American novelist and academic (died 2020 )
September 6 – Clancy Sigal , American writer (died 2017 )
September 14 – Michel Butor , French writer (died 2016 )
September 16 – John Knowles , American novelist (died 2001 )[13]
October 2 – Jan Morris , born James Morris, Anglo-Welsh historian and travel writer (died 2020 )
October 15 – Evan Hunter , American author and screenwriter (died 2005 )
November 5 – John Berger , English art critic and novelist (died 2017 )[14]
November 11
November 19 – Barry Reckord , Jamaican playwright (died 2011 )
November 20 – John Gardner , English thriller writer (died 2007 )
November 25 – Poul Anderson , American science fiction writer (died 2001 )
December 23 – Robert Bly , American writer (died 2021 )
January 14
January 26 – Bucura Dumbravă , Romanian novelist and spiritualist (malaria, born 1868 )
February 1 – Ishibashi Ningetsu (石橋 忍月), Japanese author and critic (born 1865 )
February 6 – Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich von Baudissin , German theologian (born 1847 )
February 12 – Radu Rosetti , Romanian politician, historical novelist and memoirist (born 1853 )
March 3 – Sir Sidney Lee , English biographer (born 1859 )
May 9 – J. M. Dent , English publisher (born 1849 )
May 21 – Ronald Firbank , English novelist (born 1886 )
May 23 – Sigrid Elmblad , Swedish author and translator (born 1860 )[15]
May 26 – Srečko Kosovel , Slovenian Expressionist poet (meningitis, born 1904 )
June 27 – Addie C. Strong Engle , American author and publisher (born 1845 )
July 8 – Karel Václav Rais , Czech realist novelist (born 1859 )
July 11 – Fran Detela , Slovenian academic and writer (born 1850 )
July 14 – Elisabeth Cavazza , American author, journalist, and music critic (born 1849 )
July 19 – Ada Cambridge , English/Australian writer and poet (born 1844 )
July 22 – John Burland Harris-Burland , British writer (born 1870 )
August 1 – Israel Zangwill , English poet (born 1864 )
October 5 – Javier de Viana , Uruguayan writer (born 1868 )
October 9 – Helena Nyblom , Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales (born 1843 )
October 11 – Albert Robida , French illustrator and novelist (born 1848 )
November 10 – Lyubov Dostoyevskaya , Russian memoirist (born 1869 )
December 8 – Sarah Doudney , English novelist, children's writer and hymnist (born 1841 )
December 12 – Jean Richepin , French poet, dramatist and novelist (born 1849 )
December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke , German poet (born 1875 )[16]
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References [ edit ]
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^ Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1996). Government Inspector ISBN 978-0-7734-8840-3
^ "Michael Bond obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 28 June 2017 .
^ "Fritz Spiegl" . The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 22 April 2012 .
^ Mitchell, Tony (1989). File on Fo . London Portsmouth, N.H., U.S.A: Methuen Drama HEB Inc. p. 7. ISBN 9780413174307
^ Higgins, Charlotte. "Reclusive novelist John Fowles dies at 79" . The Guardian . Retrieved 24 October 2014 .
^ "Harper Lee obituary" . The Guardian . 19 February 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017 .
^ Smith, Curtis (1986). Twentieth-century science-fiction writers . Chicago: St. James Press. p. 153. ISBN 9780912289274
^ Hampton, Wilborn (April 6, 1997). "Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on March 11, 2008. Retrieved April 14, 2008 .
^ "Elisabeth Beresford: Children's author who created the Wombles" The Independent . 3 January 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 10 January 2022 .
^ Louis James, "Heath, Roy Aubrey Kelvin (1926–2008)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, January 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
^ Honan, William H. (2001-12-01). "John Knowles, 75, Novelist Who Wrote 'A Separate Peace' . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-10-25 .
^ "John Berger obituary" . The Guardian . 2 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017 .
^ Bohman, Nils; Dahl, Torsten (1955). Svenska män och Kvinnor: Biografisk Uppslagsbok (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. p. 394. OCLC 1137575928 .
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