1927 in literature

1927 in literature

The year 1927 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*Random House, book publishers, is founded in New York City by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.

New books

*James Boyd - "Marching On"
*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"
*Jaime de Angulo - "The Lariat"
*Mazo de la Roche - "Jalna"
*Franklin W. Dixon - "The Tower Treasure"
*Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"
*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"
*Baroness Orczy - "Sir Percy Hits Back"
*Marcel Proust - "In Search of Lost Time" (final instalment)
*Waverley Lewis Root - "King of the Jews"
*Upton Sinclair - "Oil!"
*B. Traven - "Der Schatz der Sierra Madre (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)"
*Sigrid Undset
**"The Snake Pit"
**"The Son Avenger"
*S. S. Van Dine - "The Canary Murder Case"
*Thornton Wilder - "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
*Henry Williamson - "Tarka the Otter"
*P. G. Wodehouse
**"Meet Mr Mulliner"
**"The Small Bachelor"
*Virginia Woolf - "To the Lighthouse"
*Arnold Zweig - "Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa (The Case of Sergeant Grischa)"

New drama

*Bertolt Brecht - "In The Jungle of Cities" (in its final version)
*Federico García Lorca - "Mariana Pineda"
*Jim Tully - "Twenty Below"

Poetry

*Robert Desnos - "La liberté ou l'amour!"
*Allama Iqbal - "Zabur-i-Ajam (Persian Psalms)"

Non-fiction

*Nan Britton - "The President's Daughter"
*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"
*Helen Waddell - "The Wandering Scholars"

Births

*January 8 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet
*February 1 - Galway Kinnell, American poet
*February 21 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996)
*March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist
*May 25 - Robert Ludlum, American novelist (d. 2001)
*July 4 - Neil Simon, American playwright
*August 23 - Dick Bruna, Dutch author & illustrator
*September 30 - W. S. Merwin, American poet
*October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist
*December 13 - James Wright, American poet (d. 1980)

Deaths

*March 18 - Philip Wicksteed, theologian and critic
*March 31 - Mabel Collins, British theosophist & author (b. 1851)
*April 16 - Gaston Leroux, French novelist (b. 1868)
*May 25 - Henri Hubert, French sociologist (b. 1872)
*May 29 - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian novelist (b. 1854)
*June 1 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
*June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (b. 1859)
*July 5 - Lesbia Harford, Australian poet (b. 1891)
*August 13 - James Oliver Curwood, American novelist & conservationist (b. 1878)
*September 14 - Hugo Ball, German poet (b. 1886)
*October 8
**Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist & poet (b. 1886)
**Mary Webb, Engligh novelist (b. 1881)
*December 5 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian dramatist & essayist (b. 1863)
*"date unknown"
**Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet (b. 1857)
**Alfred Remy, American philologist & music writer (b. 1870)

Awards

*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Francis Brett Young, "The Portrait of Clare"
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:H. A. L. Fisher, "James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M."
*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"


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