1928 in literature

The year 1928 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * 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 from Burma.
 * Leslie Charteris publishes Meet - The Tiger!, the first adventure of Simon 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 to Berlin.
 * The clerihew, the verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.

New books

 * 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. Du Bois - 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
 * The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
 * Arthur Schnitzler - Therese
 * S. S. Van Dine
 * The Greene Murder Case
 * The Bishop Murder Case
 * Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
 * H. G. Wells - Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
 * Franz Werfel - Class Reunion
 * Virginia Woolf - Orlando: A Biography

New drama

 * Bertolt Brecht - The Threepenny Opera
 * Eduardo De Filippo - Filosoficamente
 * Nikolai Erdman - The Suicide
 * Marieluise Fleißer - Pioneers in Ingolstadt
 * Garrett Fort - Jarnegan
 * Federico García Lorca - The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden (written)
 * John Howard Lawson - The International
 * Somerset Maugham - The Sacred Flame
 * R. C. Sherriff - Journey's End
 * Sophie Treadwell - Machinal

Poetry

 * Robert Frost - West-Running Brook
 * Federico García Lorca - Romancero Gitano
 * Siegfried Sassoon - The Heart's Journey

Non-fiction

 * Max Aitken - Politicians and the War
 * Hall Caine - Recollections of Rossetti (second expanded version)
 * Julius Evola - Imperialismo Pagano
 * 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

 * 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 (d. 2010)
 * 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

 * 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

 * 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 for children'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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