1927 in literature - Definition

See also: 1926 in literature, other events of 1927, 1928 in literature, list of years in literature.

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

• Amerika - Franz Kafka
• Aspects of the Novel - E. M. Forster
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
• The Closed Garden - Julian Green
• La Confession de Dan Yack - Blaise Cendrars
• Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
• Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
• Go She Must! - David Garnett
• God's Trombones - James Weldon Johnson
• Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
• Jalna - Mazo De La Roche
• King of the Jews - Waverley Lewis Root
• Marching On - James Boyd
• Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne
• Philosophy and Civilization - John Dewey
• The President's Daughter - Nan Britton
• In Search of Lost Time (final installment) - Marcel Proust
• Smoky the Cowhorse - Will James
• The Snake Pit - Sigrid Undset
• Something About Eve - James Branch Cabell
• The Son Avenger - Sigrid Undset
• To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• The Tower Treasure - Franklin W. Dixon

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

• April 16 - Gaston Leroux
• June 1 - J. B. Bury, historian
• June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, writer
• August 13 - James Oliver Curwood, American author of wilderness stories

Awards

• 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