1926 in literature

The year 1926 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is founded in Middlebury, Vermont.
 * Ford Madox Ford publishes A Man Could Stand Up --. It is the third book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
 * October 14 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is published for the first time.
 * The remains of Isaac Rosenberg are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
 * S.S. Van Dine publishes the first Philo Vance mystery novel.

New books

 * Marcel Arland - Monique
 * Isaac Babel - Red Cavalry
 * Henry Bellamann - Petenera's Daughter
 * Louis Bromfield - Early Autumn
 * Willa Cather - My Mortal Enemy
 * Arthur Bowie Chrisman - Shen of the Sea
 * Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
 * James R. Crowell & Samuel C. Hildreth - The Spell of the Turf
 * Arthur Conan Doyle - The Land of Mist
 * Lion Feuchtwanger - The Ugly Duchess
 * Ford Madox Ford - A Man Could Stand Up --
 * C.S. Forester - Payment Deferred
 * Zona Gale - Preface to Life
 * Hugo Gernsback - Ralph 124C 41+
 * Ellen Glasgow - The Romantic Comedians
 * Georgette Heyer - These Old Shades
 * Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
 * Franz Kafka - The Castle
 * A.A. Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh
 * George A. Moore - Ulich and Soracha
 * Vladimir Nabokov - Mary
 * Baroness Orczy
 * Unravelled Knots
 * The Celestial City
 * Cassiano Ricardo - Vamos caçar papagaios
 * Dorothy L. Sayers - Clouds of Witness
 * Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story
 * S.S. Van Dine - The Benson Murder Case
 * H.G. Wells - The World of William Clissold
 * Walter F. White - Flight

New drama

 * Bertolt Brecht - Man Equals Man
 * Mikhail Bulgakov - Days of the Turbins
 * St. John Greer Ervine - Anthony and Anna
 * Sean O'Casey - The Plough and the Stars

Poetry

 * Mário de Andrade - Losango cáqui
 * Robert McAlmon - The Portrait of a Generation
 * Hugh MacDiarmid - A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

Non-fiction

 * Angela Brazil - My Own Schooldays
 * T.E. Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
 * R.H. Tawney - Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
 * William Butler Yeats - Autobiographies

Births

 * January 5 - W. D. Snodgrass, American poet
 * January 14 - Tom Tryon, American actor & novelist (d. 1991)
 * February 3 - Richard Yates, American writer (d. 1992)
 * February 15 - Dieter Lattmann, writer & politician
 * February 20 - Richard Matheson, American author
 * March 3 - James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
 * March 24 - Dario Fo, Italian dramatist & actor
 * March 27 - Frank O'Hara, American poet (d. 1966)
 * March 31 - John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)
 * April 28 - Harper Lee, American novelist
 * May 21 - Robert Creeley, American author (d. 2005)
 * June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, American Beat Generation poet (d. 1997)
 * July 11 - Frederick Buechner, American author & minister
 * July 18 - Elizabeth Jennings, English poet (d. 2001)
 * August 14 - René Goscinny, French writer & co-creator of Asterix (d. 1977)
 * August 14 - Alice Adams, American short story writer
 * September 14 - Michel Butor, French writer
 * October 15 - Evan Hunter, American author & screenwriter (d. 2005)
 * November 20 - John Gardner, British novelist (d. 2007)
 * December 1 - Elena Harlow, horror author
 * December 23 - Robert Bly, American writer
 * date unknown - Spencer Holst, American writer & storyteller (d. 2001)

Deaths

 * January 14 - René Boylesve, French author (b. 1867)
 * May 21 - Ronald Firbank, British novelist (b. 1886)
 * August 1 - Israel Zangwill, English poet (b. 1964)
 * December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, German language poet (b. 1875)

Awards

 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Radclyffe Hall, Adam's Breed
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Reverend Dr H. B. Workman, John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea
 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Grazia Deledda
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George Kelly, Craig's Wife
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
 * Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith
 * Blindman International Poetry Prize: Ruth Manning-Sanders, The City