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 selected 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.
2/17/1929:
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.
