Literary Chronology

1821:

Sir Richard Burton (Richard Francis Burton) is born in Torquay, Devonshire, England.

1835:

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is born on November 30 in Florida, Missouri.

1850:

Guy de Maupassant is born. It is believed that Maupassant was born at Château de Miromesniel on August 5, 1850, although it is speculated that his parents moved him from their humble house in Fécamp to the imposing Miromesniel mansion to give their first-born child a high-sounding birthplace.

1865:

Rudyard Kipling is born on December 30 in Bombay, India.

1880:

Guy de Maupassant's "Boule de Suif" is published.

1885:

Sir Richard Burton's The Arabian Nights is published.

1890:

Sir Richard Burton dies.

1891:

Zora Neale Hurston is born. Although census reports indicate that Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891, she claims to be born in 1901 or 1903. The actual date remains a mystery, as does her exact burial site.

1893:

Guy de Maupassant dies in an asylum in Paris.

1895:

Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is published.

1896:

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald) is born on September 24 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

1907:

Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel Prize in Literature "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."

1910:

Mark Twain dies on April 21 in Connecticut.

1915:

Jean Stafford is born in Covina, California.

1926:

Alice Adams is born on August 14 in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

1928:

Gabriel García Márquez is born on March 6 in Aracataca, Colombia.

1932:

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Crazy Sunday" is published.

1934:

Harlan Ellison is born on May 27 in Cleveland, Ohio.

1935:

Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

1936:

Rudyard Kipling dies on January 18 and is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

1939:

Toni Cade Bambara (Miltona Mirkin Cade) is born on March 25 in New York City.

1940:

F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack on December 21 in Hollywood at the age of forty four.

1950:

Zora Neale Hurston's "Conscience of the Court" is published.

1950:

Gabriel García Márquez's "Eyes of a Blue Dog" is published.

1953:

Jean Stafford's "In the Zoo" is published.

1960:

Zora Neale Hurston dies on January 28 in a welfare home in Fort Pierce, Florida, after suffering a stroke in 1959.

1965:

Harlan Ellison's "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" is published.

1966:

Peter Ho Davies is born on August 30 in Coventry, England, to a Chinese mother, Sook Ying Ho, and a Welsh father, Thomas Enion Davies.

1969:

Mark Twain's "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" is published.

1970:

Jean Stafford receives the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her Collected Stories.

1971:

Toni Cade Bambara's "Gorilla, My Love" is published.

1972:

Akhil Sharma is born in New Delhi, India. Subsequently, he moved with his family to Edison, New Jersey, USA, where he grew up.

1977:

Woody Allen's "The Kugelmass Episode" is published.

1979:

Jean Stafford dies of complications following a stroke in 1979, leaving her estate to her housekeeper.

1981:

Alice Adams's "Greyhound People" is published.

1982:

Gabriel García Márquez receives the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts."

1995:

Toni Cade Bambara dies of colon cancer on December 9.

1995:

Akhil Sharma's "If You Sing like That for Me" is published.

1999:

Alice Adams dies in her sleep on May 27 in San Francisco.

2000:

Peter Ho Davies's "Think of England" is published.