American Literature timeline
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'Men Without Women' Is Published
Hills Like White Elephants" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women. The story... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Moves To Key West
The new Hemingways heard of Key West from Ernest’s friend John Dos Passos, and the two stopped at the tiny Florida island on their way back from... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway's Father Clarence Commits Suicide
Suffering from severe diabetes and concerned about his financial future, Clarence Hemingway shot himself on December 6, 1928 with his father's... Read more
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'Sartoris' Is Published
The novel deals with the decay of an aristocratic southern family just after the end of World War I. The wealthy Sartoris family of Jefferson,... Read more
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William Faulkner Marries Estelle Oldham
Faulkner married Estelle in June 1929 at College Hill Presbyterian Church just outside of Oxford, Mississippi.[7] They honeymooned on the... Read more
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'A Farewell To Arms' Is Published
Pauline was pregnant at the time and on June 28, 1928 gave birth to Patrick by cesarean section. It was in December of that year that Hemingway... Read more
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'The Sound and The Fury' Is Published
The Sound and the Fury is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including the technique... Read more
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'The Maltese Falcon' is Published
The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine "Black Mask". The story has been adapted... Read more
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William Faulkner purchases 'Rowan Oak'
Rowan Oak, also known as William Faulkner House, is William Faulkner's former home in Oxford, Mississippi. It is a primitive Greek Revival house... Read more
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'As I Lay Dying' Is Published
As I Lay Dying is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. The novel was written in six weeks while Faulkner was working at a power plant,... Read more
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'Sanctuary' Is Published
Sanctuary is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It is considered one of his more controversial, given its theme of rape. First... Read more
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'Death In The Afternoon' Is Published
Death in the Afternoon (1932) marked a departure from the fiction-writing career of Ernest Hemingway. A study of the Spanish bullfight, the book... Read more
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'Light In August' Is Published
Light in August is an exploration of racial conflict in the society of the Southern United States. Originally Faulkner planned to call the novel... Read more
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The Film Version of 'A Farewell to Arms' Is Released
Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes play Frederic and Catherine, a soldier and nurse who fall for each other in wartime, and they are matched perfectly.... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Travels to Africa
In 1933 Hemingway and Pauline went on safari to East Africa, a 10-week trip that provided material for Green Hills of Africa as well as the short... Read more
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'Winner Take Nothing' Is Published
Returning to fiction in 1933, Hemingway published Winner Take Nothing, a volume of short stories. The book contained 14 stories, including "A Clean... Read more
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"Black Reconstruction" is Published
Black Reconstruction in America is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois, first published in 1935. It is revisionist approach to looking at the Reconstruction... Read more
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'Pylon' Is Published
Pylon is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. Published in 1935, Pylon is set in New Valois, a fictionalized version of New Orleans. It... Read more
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'Green Hills of Africa' Is Published
Green Hills of Africa initially got a cool reception. Writing for The New York Times, critic John Chamberlain claimed: "Green Hills of Africa" is... Read more
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"Gone With The Wind" Is Published
Gone with the Wind is a romantic drama and the only novel written by Margaret Mitchell. It is set in Jonesboro and Atlanta, Georgia during the... Read more
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'Absalom, Absalom' Is Published
Absalom, Absalom! details the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a white man born into poverty in Western Virginia who comes to Mississippi with the... Read more
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'Of Mice and Men' is Published
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny,... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Reports On The Spanish Civil War
In March 1937 Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance. The civil war caused a marital... Read more
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'To Have and Have Not' Is Published
The novel consists of two earlier short stories ("One Trip Across" and "The Tradesman's Return") that make up the opening chapters and a novella... Read more
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'The Unvanquished' Is Published
The Unvanquished is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, set in Yoknapatawpha County. It tells the story of the Sartoris family, who... Read more