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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