Check out some important literary events that have anniversaries this month.
11/1/1871:
Stephen Crane is born in Newark, New Jersey.
11/4/1948:
T. S. Eliot receives the Nobel Prize for Literature. For a complete list of Nobel Prize winners for literature since its 1901 inception, go to this site.
11/5/1930:
Sinclair Lewis receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
11/7/1874:
Harper's Weekly publishes the first political cartoon. Check out the History of Harper's to learn more about the magazine's origin, and download political cartoons from famous moments in history.
11/11/1922:
Kurt Vonnegut is born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
11/14/1871:
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is published. Did you know that Moby-Dick started out as a light-hearted whaling adventure? Did you know that Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne were friends? Find other interesting facts on the life and works of Herman Melville.
11/15/1887:
Marianne Moore, winner of the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is born in St. Louis, Missouri.
11/18/1942:
By the Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning comedy, opens on Broadway.
11/19/1861:
Julia Ward Howe writes five stanzas of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
11/19/1863:
Abraham Lincoln delivers "The Gettysburg Address." "The Gettysburg Address" is one of the most famous speeches in history.
11/25/1792:
Old Farmer's Almanac (later The Farmer's Almanac) is first published. Read about how this staple of American history, founded by Robert B. Thomas, got its start.
11/27/1970:
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He does not travel to Stockholm to receive his prize, as he fears that the Soviet government will refuse to readmit him when he returns home.
11/30/1667:
Jonathan Swift is born in Dublin, Ireland.
11/30/1835:
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is born in Hannibal, Missouri. In addition to his many novels and stories, Mark Twain is also famous for his wit and witticisms.
