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
 * Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
 * Will James - Smoky the Cowhorse
 * James Weldon Johnson - God's Trombones
 * Franz Kafka - Amerika
 * Rosamond Lehmann - Dusty Answer
 * 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
 * Dorothy L. Sayers - Unnatural Death
 * 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

 * Isaac Babel - Sunset
 * Philip Barry - Paris Bound
 * Bertolt Brecht - In The Jungle of Cities (in its final version)
 * Mikhail Bulgakov - Flight (written)
 * Federico García Lorca - Mariana Pineda
 * DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward - Porgy
 * Vsevolod Ivanov - Armoured Train 14-69
 * George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber - The Royal Family
 * John Howard Lawson - Loud Speaker
 * W. Somerset Maugham - The Letter
 * Ernst Toller - Hoppla, We're Alive!
 * Jim Tully - Twenty Below
 * Bayard Veiller - The Trial of Mary Dugan

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 6 - William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist & journalist
 * 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 (born 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