1927 in literature

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

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

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

[edit] 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
• 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)

[edit] New drama

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

[edit] Poetry

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

[edit] 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
• Helen Waddell - The Wandering Scholars

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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