20th Century Timeline

1905-6 Mark Twain’s Eve’s Diary published

1909 Mark Twain writes Letters from the Earth (finally published in 1962)

1910 Death of Mark Twain

1922 T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland published

1924 A 35-year-old Chaplin marries 16-year-old Lita Grey. They divorced two years later.

1940 Chaplin’s The Great Dictator released in theaters

1942 T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding published

1943 A 54-year-old Chaplin marries a17-year-old Oona O’Neill.

1950 C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe published

1952 Chaplin leaves the U.S. and lives in Vevey, Switzerland

1953 Death of Dylan Thomas in Manhattan

1954-5 Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is published

1955 Nabokov’s Lolita published in Paris and in 1958 in the U.S.

1960 Nabokov moves to Montreux, Switzerland

1977 Deaths of Nabokov in Montreux and Chaplin in Vevey