- 1928 in literature
The year 1928 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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Ford Madox Ford publishes "Last Post ". It is the final book of a four-volume work titled "Parade's End " published between 1924 and 1928.
*George Orwell returns fromBurma .
*Leslie Charteris publishes "Meet - The Tiger! ", the first adventure ofSimon Templar , alias The Saint. Charteris would write dozens of novels and short stories featuring the character on a regular basis between 1928 and 1963, and others would continue the series until 1983.
*W. H. Auden goes toBerlin .
*Theclerihew , the verse form associated withEdmund Clerihew Bentley , is mentioned in print for the first time.New books
*(anonymous) "
Confessions of a Negro Preacher "
*Mário de Andrade - "Munacaima "
*Leslie Barringer - "Joris of the Rock "
*Charles William Beebe - "Beneath Tropic Seas "
*Henry Bellamann - "Crescendo"
*Edgar Rice Burroughs - "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle"
*Morley Callaghan - "Strange Fugitive "
*Agatha Christie - "The Mystery of the Blue Train "
*Frank Parker Day - "Rockbound "
*Franklin W. Dixon - "Hunting for Hidden Gold "
*W. E. B. DuBois - "Dark Princess"
*Rudolph Fisher - "The Walls of Jericho "
*Esther Forbes - "A Mirror for Witches "
*Ford Madox Ford - "Last Post "
*E. M. Forster - "The Eternal Moment and Other Stories"
*Radclyffe Hall - "The Well of Loneliness "
*Hermann Hesse - "Steppenwolf"
*Georgette Heyer - "The Masqueraders "
*Aldous Huxley - "Point Counter Point "
*Ilf and Petrov - "The Twelve Chairs "
*Joseph Kessel - "Belle de Jour"
*Nella Larsen - "Quicksand"
*D. H. Lawrence - "Lady Chatterley's Lover "
*Claude McKay - "Home To Harlem "
*W. Somerset Maugham - "Ashenden "
*A. A. Milne - "The House at Pooh Corner "
*Dhan Gopal Mukerji - "Gay Neck "
*Vladimir Nabokov - "King, Queen, Knave "
*Baroness Orczy - "Skin o' My Tooth "
*Anthony Powell - "The Barnard Letters "
*Erich Maria Remarque - "All Quiet on the Western Front "
*Felix Salten - "Bambi, A Life in the Woods " (translation; the German original had appeared in 1923)
*Siegfried Sassoon - "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man "
*Dorothy L. Sayers - "Lord Peter Views the Body "
*Arthur Schnitzler - "Therese"
*S. S. Van Dine - "The Greene Murder Case "
*S. S. Van Dine - "The Bishop Murder Case "
*Evelyn Waugh - "Decline and Fall "
*H. G. Wells - "Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island "
*Franz Werfel - "Class Reunion"
*Virginia Woolf - ""New drama
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Bertolt Brecht - "The Threepenny Opera "
*Eduardo De Filippo - "Filosoficamente"
*Marieluise Fleißer - "Pioneers in Ingolstadt "
*Garrett Fort - "Jarnegan"
*Federico García Lorca - "The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden"
*William Somerset Maugham - "The Sacred Flame "
*R. C. Sherriff - "Journey's End "
*Sophie Treadwell - "Machinal "Poetry
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Robert Frost - "West-Running Brook "
*Federico García Lorca - "Romancero Gitano"
*Siegfried Sassoon - "The Heart's Journey "Non-fiction
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Max Aitken - "Politicians and the War "
*Hall Caine - "Recollections of Rossetti " - second expanded version
*Sidney Bradshaw Fay - "Origins of the World War "
*Harold Lloyd - "An American Comedy " (autobiography)
*Margaret Mead - "Coming of Age in Samoa "
*H. G. Wells - "The Open Conspiracy "Births
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January 1 -Iain Crichton Smith , Scottish writer (d. 1998)
*January 7 -William Peter Blatty , American writer & filmmaker
*January 8 -Sander Vanocur , American journalist
*January 16 - William Kennedy, American writer & journalist
*January 24 -Desmond Morris , English anthropologist & writer
*February 5 -Andrew Greeley , Irish-American priest & novelist
*February 9 -Roger Mudd , American journalist
*March 4 -Alan Sillitoe , English novelist
*March 12 -Edward Albee , American dramatist
*March 30 -Tom Sharpe , English satirical author
*April 4 -Maya Angelou , American poet
*April 7 -Alan J. Pakula , American screenwriter (d. 1998)
*April 17 -Cynthia Ozick , American author
*April 24 -Martin Seymour-Smith , British poet, biographer & critic (d. 1998)
*May 4 -Thomas Kinsella , Irish poet
*June 10 -Maurice Sendak , American children's author & illustrator
*July 16 -Anita Brookner , English novelist
*July 26 -Bernice Rubens , Welsh novelist (d. 2004)
*October 3 -Alvin Toffler , American futurist writer
*November 2 - Paul Johnson, British historian & journalist
*November 9 -Anne Sexton , American poet (d. 1974)
*November 11 -Carlos Fuentes , Mexican writer
*December 16 -Philip K. Dick , American science fiction author (d. 1982)
*"date unknown"
**Jane Grigson , British cookery writer (d. 1990)Deaths
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January 8 -Juan B. Justo , Argentine journalist (b. 1865)
*January 11 -Thomas Hardy , English novelist & poet (b. 1840)
*January 19 -Hans Hinrich Wendt , German theologian (b. 1853)
*February 19 -Mildred Aldrich , American journalist (b. 1853)
*March 4 -Paul Sabatier , French religious writer (b. 1858)
*March 18 -Paul van Ostaijen , Flemish poet (b. 1896)
*March 24 -Charlotte Mew , English poet (b. 1869)
*April 19 -Ladislav Klíma , Czech novelist & philosopher (b. 1878)
*May 16 -Edmund Gosse , English poet & critic (b. 1849)
*July 8 -Crystal Eastman , American journalist (b. 1881)
*August 16 -Antonín Sova , Czech poet (b. 1864)
*December 16 -Elinor Wylie , American poet & novelist (b. 1885)
*December 19 -Italo Svevo , Italian writer (b. 1861)
*"date unknown"
**Henry Festing Jones , British biographer (b. 1851)
**Isaac Markens , American journalist (b. 1846)Awards
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Siegfried Sassoon , "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man "
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:John Buchan , "Montrose"
*Newbery Medal forchildren's literature :Dhan Gopal Mukerji , "Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon "
*Nobel Prize for Literature :Sigrid Undset
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama :Eugene O'Neill , "Strange Interlude "
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :Edwin Arlington Robinson , "Tristram "
*Pulitzer Prize for the Novel :Thornton Wilder , "The Bridge of San Luis Rey "
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