1927 in literature
See also: 1926 in literature, other events of 1927, 1928 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Random House, book publishers, founded in New York City by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather is published.
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder is published.
New books
- James Boyd - Marching On
- Nan Britton - The President's Daughter
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Outlaw of Torn
- James Branch Cabell - Something About Eve
- Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Blaise Cendrars - La Confession de Dan Yack
- Agatha Christie - The Big Four
- Mazo de la Roche - Jalna
- Franklin W. Dixon - The Tower Treasure
- David Garnett - Go She Must!
- Julien Green - The Closed Garden
- Ernest Hemingway - Hills Like White Elephants
- Will James - Smoky the Cowhorse
- James Weldon Johnson - God's Trombones
- Franz Kafka - Amerika
- Sinclair Lewis - Elmer Gantry
- A. A. Milne - Now We Are Six
- Vilhelm Moberg - Raskens
- Yury Olesha - Envy
- Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time (final instalment)
- Waverley Lewis Root - King of the Jews
- Upton Sinclair - Oil!
- Sigrid Undset
- The Snake Pit
- The Son Avenger
- Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Poetry
- Robert Desnos - La liberté ou l'amour!
- Allama Iqbal - Zabur-i-Ajam (Persian Psalms)
Non-fiction
- John Dewey - Philosophy and Civilization
- J. W. Dunne - An Experiment with Time
- E. M. Forster - Aspects of the Novel
- Sigmund Freud - The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)
- Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (Sein und Zeit)
- T. E. Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- Bertrand Russell - An Outline of Philosophy
Births
- February 21 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist (+ 1996)
- May 25 - Robert Ludlum, novelist (+ 2001)
- August 23 - Dick Bruna, illustrator
- October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist
Deaths
- March 18 - Philip Wicksteed, theologian and critic
- March 31 - Mabel Collins, theosophist author
- April 16 - Gaston Leroux, novelist
- May 25 - Henri Hubert, sociologist
- May 29 - Georges Eekhoud, novelist
- June 1 - J. B. Bury, historian
- June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, humorous writer
- July 5 - Lesbia Harford, poet
- August 13 - James Oliver Curwood, American author of wilderness stories
- September 14 - Hugo Ball, poet
- October 8
- Ricardo Güiraldes, novelist and poet
- Mary Webb, novelist
- December 5 - Fyodor Sologub, dramatist and essayist
- date unknown
- Adolfo León Gómez, poet
- Alfred Remy, philologist and music writer
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Francis Brett Young, The Portrait of Clare
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Will James, Smoky the Cow Horse
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Henri Bergson
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn
Categories
1927 books