1927 in literature

none 1927 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1927. Events thumb|First edition (UK) of Meet Mr Mulliner January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo. February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the Académie des femmes,Natalie Clifford Barney Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney https://books.google.com/books?id=68cVCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 June 1992 NYU Press 978-0-8147-1177-4 14 an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney at her Paris salon. Others honored include Colette, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes and, posthumously, Renée Vivien.Wickes George 1976 The Amazon of Letters https://archive.org/details/amazonoflettersl00wickrich registration New York Putnam 0-399-11864-0 153, 167 February 24 – The new John Golden Theatre (Theatre Masque) opens in New York City at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan. May 5 – Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel To the Lighthouse is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism,100 Best Novels Modern Library 1999 http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html 2014-04-18 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100207224252/http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html 2010-02-07 June 29 – T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian, is baptised into the Church of England at Finstock. In November he takes British citizenship. Grant Michael T.S. Eliot : the critical heritage Routledge London New York 1997 9780415159470 25 July 5 – James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Fargnoli A Critical companion to James Joyce : a literary reference to his life and work Facts On File New York, NY 2006 9781438108483 387 July 9 – P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", published in the U.S. magazine Liberty, introduces Lord Emsworth's prize pig, the Empress of Blandings. The first UK appearance follows in the August issue of The Strand Magazine). August – T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi appears in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series in London, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. September – Eric Blair (George Orwell) decides while on leave from the Imperial Police in Burma to remain in the U.K. He moves to London to become a writer. October – Victor Gollancz founds the London publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd. December – Agatha Christie's fictional amateur detective Miss Marple makes a first appearance in "The Tuesday Night Club", published in The Royal Magazine.John Curran Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making New York Harper 2011 978-0-06-206542-1 140 registration https://archive.org/details/agathachristiemu0000curr/page/140 This becomes the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932). unknown dates A translation of Franz Roh's work of art criticism Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei (After Expressionism – Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting, 1925) into Spanish by Revista de Occidente leads to the concept of magic realism becoming popular in Latin American literature.Irene Guenther, "Magic Realism in the Weimar Republic" in MR: Theory, History, Community. The Strand Bookstore is founded in Manhattan by Benjamin Bass.https://www.nytimes.com/1978/08/02/archives/benjamin-bass-77-was-founder-of-the-strand-usedbook-store-quest-for.html Benjamin Bass, 77, Was Founder Of the Strand Used-Book Store The New York Times Thomas, Robert McG. Jr. August 2, 1978 January 3, 2018 New books Fiction Djamaluddin Adinegoro – Darah Muda (Young Blood) Ion Agârbiceanu – Legea minții Anthony Armstrong – Jimmie Rezaire Anthony Berkeley – Cicely Disappears Arthur Bernède – Belphégor Tjoe Hong Bok – Setangan Berloemoer Darah (A Glove Covered in Blood) Elizabeth Bowen – The Hotel James Boyd – Marching On Lynn Brock – The Kink 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 J. J. Connington Murder in the Maze Tragedy at Ravensthorpe Jaime de Angulo – The Lariat Mazo de la Roche – Jalna Warwick Deeping – Kitty Ding Ling – Miss Sophia's Diary Arthur Conan Doyle – The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes William Faulkner – Mosquitoes David Garnett – Go She Must! Anthony Gilbert – The Tragedy at Freyne George Goodchild – The Monster of Grammont Maxim Gorky – The Life of Klim Samgin («Жизнь Клима Самгина», Zhizn' Klima Samgina, first volume, translated as Bystander) Julien Green – The Closed Garden H. Rider Haggard – Allan and the Ice-gods Frances Noyes Hart – The Bellamy Trial Ernest Hemingway – Men Without Women Hermann Hesse – Steppenwolf James Weldon Johnson – God's Trombones Franz Kafka – Amerika Margaret Kennedy – Red Sky at Morning Joseph Kessel – Nights of Princes Ronald Knox – The Three Taps Kwee Tek Hoay – Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang Ze'ev Jabotinsky – Samson D. H. Lawrence – John Thomas and Lady Jane Halldór Laxness – Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír (The Great Weaver from Kashmir) Rosamond Lehmann – Dusty Answer Sinclair Lewis – Elmer Gantry Marie Belloc Lowndes – The Story of Ivy Philip MacDonald – Patrol Compton Mackenzie Rogues and Vagabonds Vestal Fire A. E. W. Mason – No Other Tiger François Mauriac – Thérèse Desqueyroux Vilhelm Moberg – Raskens Paul Morand – The Living Buddha Mourning Dove – Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range Yury Olesha – Envy («Зависть», Zavist''') Edith Olivier – The Love ChildE. Phillips Oppenheim – Miss Brown of X.Y.O.Baroness Orczy – Sir Percy Hits BackT. F. Powys – Mr. Weston's Good WineJ. B. Priestley – BenightedMarcel Proust (died 1922) – Le Temps retrouvé (Time Regained or The Past Recaptured; final instalment of In Search of Lost Time) Waverley Lewis Root – King of the JewsJoseph Roth – Flight without EndRafael Sabatini – The Nuptials of CorbalDorothy L. Sayers – Unnatural DeathUpton Sinclair – Oil!Cecil Street The Ellerby Case Mademoiselle From ArmentieresAleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – The Garin Death Ray («Гиперболоид инженера Гарина») B. Traven – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Der Schatz der Sierra Madre)Sigrid UndsetThe Snake PitThe Son AvengerKonstantin Vaginov – Goat SongS. S. Van Dine – The Canary Murder CaseEdgar Wallace The ForgerThe Squeaker Terror KeepThe Traitor's GateThornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis ReyHenry Williamson – Tarka the OtterDominic Head Modernity and the English Rural Novel https://books.google.com/books?id=7l5UDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA43 7 April 2017 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03913-1 43 P. G. WodehouseMeet Mr MullinerThe Small BachelorVirginia Woolf – To the LighthouseMary Aswell Doll Like Letters in Running Water: A Mythopoetics of Curriculum https://books.google.com/books?id=x7WPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA205 July 2000 Routledge 978-1-135-67762-6 205 Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川 英治) – Naruto Hitcho (鳴門秘帖, A Secret Record of Naruto; serialization concludes) Francis Brett Young – Portrait of ClareArnold Zweig – The Case of Sergeant Grischa (Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa)Harry Thornton Moore Twentieth-century German Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=3XgaAAAAYAAJ 1967 Basic Books 84 Children and young people Walter R. Brooks – To and Again (reissued 1949 as Freddy Goes to Florida, first of the Freddy the Pig series) Franklin W. Dixon – The Tower TreasureWill James – Smoky the CowhorseMay Justus – Peter Pocket: A Little Boy of the Cumberland MountainsJohn Masefield – The Midnight FolkA. A. Milne – Now We Are Six (verse) Edward Wyke Smith – The Marvellous Land of Snergs (proto-Hobbits) Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Gnome King of Oz (21st in the Oz series overall and the seventh written by her) Constancio C. VigilBotón TolónCuentos para niñosLa hormiguita viajeraLos escarabajos y la moneda de oroDrama Isaac Babel – Sunset Philip Barry – Paris Bound Noel Pemberton Billing – High Treason Bertolt Brecht – In The Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte in its final version) Mikhail Bulgakov – Flight («Бег», Beg, written) Noël Coward Home Chat The Marquise Hamilton Deane – Dracula (1927 revision of a 1924 stage adaptation) James Bernard Fagan – The Greater Love Federico García Lorca Mariana Pineda The Curse of the Butterfly (El Maleficio de la Mariposa) (first production, in Teatro Eslava, Madrid) Joseph Goebbels – Der Wanderer (only performances; written 1923) Walter Hackett – The Wicked Earl Oscar Hammerstein II (book & lyrics) – Show Boat (musical play adaptation) DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward – Porgy Vsevolod Ivanov – Armoured Train 14-69 («Бронепоезд 14-69», Bronepoezd 14-69) Georgia Douglas Johnson – Plumes George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber – The Royal Family John Howard Lawson – Loud Speaker Alexander Lernet-Holenia – Szene als Einleitung zu einer Totenfeier für Rainer Maria Rilke Frederick Lonsdale – The High Road W. Somerset Maugham – The Letter Harrison Owen – The Happy Husband Ernst Toller – Hoppla, We're Alive! (Hoppla, wir leben!) Ben Travers – Thark Jim Tully – Twenty Below John Van Druten Chance Acquaintance Diversion Bayard Veiller – The Trial of Mary Dugan Roger Vitrac – Les Mystères de l'amour (The Mysteries of Love) Frank Vosper – The Combined Maze Edgar Wallace Double Dan The Terror Emlyn Williams – Full Moon Carl Zuckmayer – Schinderhannes Poetry 1927 in poetry Robert Desnos – La Liberté ou l'amour! (Liberty or Love!) Muhammad Iqbal – Zabur-i Ajam (Persian Psalms)James Joyce – Pomes PenyeachDon Marquis – archy and mehitabelNon-fiction Nan Britton – The President's DaughterBritton Nan Nan Britton 1927 The President's Daughter The President's Daughter (Britton) New York Elizabeth Ann Guild Inc. 466438 Alexandra David-Néel – Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa (translated as My Journey to Lhasa) John Dewey – Philosophy and Civilizationhttps://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1020.html Obituary: "Dr. John Dewey Dead at 92; Philosopher a Noted Liberal The New York Times 1952 2013-06-13 J. W. Dunne – An Experiment with TimeWalter Evans-Wentz (translator) – The Tibetan Book of the Dead (translation of Bardo Thodol) E. M. Forster – Aspects of the NovelAspects of the novelist : E. M. Forster's pattern and rhythm Lavin, Audrey A. P. (Audrey Ann Perlman) 1995 P. Lang 0820419664 New York 27642577 Sigmund Freud – The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)Charles Homer Haskins - The Renaissance of the Twelfth CenturyMartin Heidegger – Being and Time (Sein und Zeit)William H. F. Altman Martin Heidegger and the First World War: Being and Time As Funeral Oration Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated 2015 9781498516259 Christopher Hussey – The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of ViewErnst Kantorowicz – Frederick the Second (Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite)Ronald Knox - The Belief of CatholicsJohn Livingston Lowes – The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the ImaginationBertrand Russell – An Outline of PhilosophyHelen Waddell – The Wandering Scholarshttps://www.acenturyofwomen.com/helen-waddell/ Helen Waddell (1889-1965) A Century of Women 30 March 2025 Births January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet (died 2015) January 16 – Oldřich Daněk, Czech dramatist (died 2000) January 24 Lasse Pöysti, Finnish writer, playwright and actor (died 2019) Marvin Kaplan, American actor, screenwriter and playwright (died 2016) January 25 – John Calder, Canadian-born Scottish publisher (died 2018) January 28 – Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (died 2015) February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (died 2014)Howard Nelson On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell: The Wages of Dying https://books.google.com/books?id=7cXV26PmJUYC&pg=PA19 1987 University of Michigan Press 0-472-06376-6 19 February 6 – William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist and journalist (died 1974) February 16 – Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi novelist (died 1971) February 21 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist (died 1996) March 6 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist (died 2014)Oberhelman Harley D. Gabriel García Márquez: A Study of the Short Fiction Twayne Publishers 1991 57 March 15 – Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (died 1995) March 18 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (died 2003)Edd Applegate Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors https://books.google.com/books?id=dWQpXRudQPwC&pg=PA204 1996 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-29949-0 204 March 24 – Martin Walser, German author (died 2023)Dieter Hildebrandt Siegfried Unseld German Mosaic: an Album for Today: Official Gift Book of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XX. Olympiade Munich 1972 https://books.google.com/books?id=eyoJAQAAIAAJ 1972 Suhrkamp 978-3-518-02636-6 438 March 22 – Vera Henriksen, née Roscher Lund, Norwegian historical novelist (died 2016) April 2 – Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (died 1980)Tracy Chevalier Encyclopedia of the Essay https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA863 1997 Taylor & Francis 978-1-884964-30-5 863 April 24 – Trudi Birger, German Holocaust survivor and writer (died 2002)Trudi Birger - Founder of DVI (1927-2002) https://dental-dvi.org.il/trudi-birger-founder-of-dvi-1927-2002/ 2021-03-27 Dental Volunteers for Israel en-US April 25 – Albert Uderzo, French author and illustrator (died 2020)Szalai, Georg Albert Uderzo, French Illustrator and Writer of 'Asterix,' Dies at 92 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/albert-uderzo-dead-french-asterix-illustrator-writer-was-92-1286127 The Hollywood Reporter March 24, 2020 March 24, 2020 May 1 – Tamar Bornstein-Lazar, Israeli children's writer (died 2020) May 7 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, British-American novelist and screenwriter (died 2013) May 10 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author Bhatnagar M. K. The fiction of Nayantara Sahgal Creative Books New Delhi 1996 9788186318300 43 May 19 – Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (died 1991) May 25 – Robert Ludlum, American novelist (died 2001)Gina Macdonald Robert Ludlum: A Critical Companion https://books.google.com/books?id=iU9-UCNiiFkC&pg=PA1 1997 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-29971-1 1 May 27 – Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, Indian Malayali novelist (died 1997) May 28 – William A. Hilliard, American journalist (died 2017) June 6 – Alan Seymour, Australian playwright (died 2015) June 1 – Moyra Caldecott, English writer of historical fiction (died 2015)Caldecott Moyra Multi-Dimensional Life. Mushroom Publishing 2007 1 June 13 – Paul Ableman, English writer of erotic fiction and playwright (died 2006) June 20 – Simin Behbahani, Persian poet (died 2014) June 23 – Jacobo Langsner, Romanian-born Uruguayan screenwriter and playwright (died 2020) June 24 – Frederick Vreeland, American diplomat and writer June 27 – Dominic Jeeva (டொமினிக் ஜீவா), Ceylonese Tamil fiction writer and essayist (died 2021) June 30 – James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (died 1998) July 4 – Neil Simon, American playwright (died 2018)Paul T. Hellmann Historical Gazetteer of the United States https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA779 14 February 2006 Routledge 1-135-94859-3 779 July 15 – Ann Jellicoe, British playwright, stage director and actress (died 2017) July 16 – Shirley Hughes, English writer and illustrator of children's books (died 2022) July 22 – Katharine Topkins, American novelist July 27 – John Seigenthaler, American journalist, writer and political figure (died 2014) July 28 John Ashbery, American poet (d. 2017)Curry Jennifer Ramm David Rich Mari World Authors, 2000-2005 https://books.google.com/books?id=lqsjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA14 2007 H.W. Wilson 978-0-8242-1077-9 14 Pasquale Festa Campanile, Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist (died 1986)Jay Robert Nash The Motion Picture Guide: The Films of 1985. 1986 annual https://books.google.com/books?id=aYgqAAAAYAAJ 1989 Cine Books 978-0-933997-15-8 346 July 31 – Peter Nichols, English playwright (died 2019) August 9 – Robert Shaw, English-born actor, novelist and playwright (died 1978)British Dramatists Since World War II: M-Z Gale Research Company 1982 470 August 15 – Patrick Galvin, Irish poet and dramatist (died 2011) August 17 – Stefan Geosits, Burgenland Croatian writer and translator (died 2022) August 23 – Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator (died 2017)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/17/dick-bruna-obituary Dick Bruna obituary 17 February 2017 Julia Eccleshare The Guardian 25 February 2020 August 24 – David Ireland, Australian novelist (died 2022)Steger Jason 2022-07-29 David Ireland, 'giant of letters' and three-time Miles Franklin winner, dies https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/david-ireland-giant-of-letters-and-three-time-miles-franklin-winner-dies-20220729-p5b5ou.html 2023-03-31 The Sydney Morning Herald en August 27 – Fouad al-Tikerly, Iraqi novelist and writer (died 2008) September 4 – Bernardino Zapponi, Italian novelist (died 2000) September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet (died 2019)H. L. Hix Understanding W.S. Merwin https://books.google.com/books?id=8JIveUt8StQC&pg=PA1 1997 Univ of South Carolina Press 978-1-57003-154-0 1 October 7 – Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (died 1993) October 16 – Günter Grass, German novelist (died 2015)Tracy Chevalier Encyclopedia of the Essay https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA362 1997 Taylor & Francis 978-1-884964-30-5 362 October 31 – Sybil Wettasinghe, Ceylonese children's writer and illustrator (died 2020)https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/07/01/veteran-childrens-author-kala-keerthi-sybil-wettasinghe-passed-away-at-the-age-of-93/ Veteran children's author, Kala Keerthi Sybil Wettasinghe passed away at the age of 93 News First 1 July 2020 November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist (died 2018) Benton Mike Masters of imagination : the comic book artists hall of fame Taylor Pub. Co Dallas, Tex 1994 9780878338597 142 November 16 – Franz Jalics, Hungarian Jesuit priest and author (died 2021) November 24 Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist (died 2003)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ahmadou-kourouma-37643.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ahmadou-kourouma-37643.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Ahmadou Kourouma December 16, 2003 The Independent July 15, 2021 Charles Osborne, Australian-born British writer and arts administrator (died 2017) December 4 – Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (died 2019)Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio Alfanhui https://books.google.com/books?id=A99eAAAAMAAJ 1975 Purdue University Press 978-0-911198-39-3 December 13 – James Wright, American poet (died 1980) December 16 - Peter Dickinson, English author and poet (died 2015) December 24 Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (died 2020)Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, page 40, 2007, Greenwood Press; 0-313-33428-5 Diane de Margerie, French translator (died 2023) Deaths January 4 – Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet (born 1870)http://ansiklopedi.turkcebilgi.com/S%C3%BCleyman_Nazif Türkçe Bilgi-Ansiklopedi Süleyman Nazif Hakkında Bilgi 2008-11-09 tr 2009-02-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20090214205803/http://ansiklopedi.turkcebilgi.com/S%C3%BCleyman_Nazif dead January 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-born German author (b. 1855)http://www.hschamberlain.net/timeline/timeline.html Houston Stewart Chamberlain: Timeline 1855–1939 HSChamberlain.net 19 April 2015 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20150427110826/http://www.hschamberlain.net/timeline/timeline.html 27 April 2015 dmy-all January 21 – Margret Holmes Bates, American novelist and poet (born 1844) January 24 – Agnes Maule Machar, Canadian poet and author (born 1837)Robert Lecker Jack David Ellen Quigley ECW's Biographical Guide to Canadian Novelists https://books.google.com/books?id=EYwfAQAAIAAJ 1993 ECW Press 978-1-55022-151-0 45 February 5 – Osório Duque-Estrada, Brazilian poet, essayist, journalist and literary critic (born 1870)http://www.academia.org.br/abl/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?sid=197 Duque-Estrada's biography Brazilian Academy of Letters pt December 5, 2021 February 26 – Alfred Remy, German-born American philologist and music writer (born 1870) February 27 – Roi Cooper Megrue, American playwright (b. 1882)https://www.nytimes.com/1927/02/28/archives/roi-cooper-megrue-playwright-dies-author-of-under-cover-and-under.html Roi Cooper Megrue, Playwright, Dies; Author of 'Under Cover' and 'Under Fire' Began His Career in a Play Brokerage Office New York Times August 12, 2022 March 3 – Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (born 1878)Frank Northen Magill Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature https://books.google.com/books?id=zu7XAAAAMAAJ 1958 Salem Press 51 March 10 – George W. Forbes, American journalist and librarian (born 1864)W. E. B. Du Bois The Crisis George Forbes of Boston: A Servant of Jew and Gentile 151–152 34 July 1927 Benjamin Sevitch W. E. B. Du Bois and Jews: A Lifetime of Opposing Anti-Semitism The Journal of African American History 87 2002 327 10.2307/1562481 1562481 March 18 – Philip Wicksteed, English theologian and critic (born 1844)The Economic journal https://books.google.com/books?id=VzdEAAAAIAAJ 1967 333 March 31 – Mabel Collins, British theosophist and author (born 1851) April 2 – Ottokár Prohászka, Hungarian Roman Catholic theologian and bishop (born 1858) April 16 – Gaston Leroux, French novelist (born 1868) Leroux Gaston The real opera ghost and other tales A. Sutton Stroud 1994 9780750907828 xiv April 17 – Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, American fantasy fiction writer (born 1850) April 19 – Minnie S. Davis, American author and mental scientist (born 1835) May 2 – Fukuda Hideko, Japanese feminist author (born 1865)Horimoto Fumiko Pioneers of the women's movement in Japan, Hiratsuka Raicho and Fukuda Hideko seen through their journals, Seito and Sekai fujin 1999 304566465 1807/14749 May 20 – N. Samuel of Tranquebar, Ceylonese poet and author (born 1850) May 25 – Henri Hubert, French sociologist (born 1872)American journal of archaeology https://books.google.com/books?id=jv4sAQAAIAAJ 1928 68 May 29 – Georges Eekhoud, Belgian novelist (born 1854) June 1 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861) June 9 – Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet (born 1857) June 14 – Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (born 1859) Connolly Joseph Jerome K. Jerome : a critical biography Orbis Pub London 1982 9780856133497 194 June 20 – Clara Louise Burnham, American novelist (born 1854)Kaser James A. The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide 2011 Scarecrow Press 978-1-4616-7258-6 414 https://books.google.com/books?id=_oWSHXCqXMQC&pg=PA414 en July 5 – Lesbia Harford, Australian poet (born 1891) July 16 – Emily Selinger, American author, painter, and educator (born 1848) July 17 – Harriet Earhart Monroe, American lecturer, educator, writer, producer (born 1842)Library of Congress American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee 1975 241 July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介), Japanese short story writer and poet (suicide, born 1892) July 26 Kazimir Barantsevich, Russian writer (born 1851) Federico De Roberto, Italian novelist and dramatist (born 1861) August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, American novelist and conservationist (born 1878) August 24 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Venezuelan writer (born 1871) September 14 – Hugo Ball, German poet (born 1886) September 15 – Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and socialist (born 1864) October 8 Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet (Hodgkin's disease, born 1886)Escuela Normal Superior de Chascomús. Mary Webb, English novelist (born 1881) Orel Harold Popular fiction in England, 1914-1918 University Press of Kentucky Lexington 1992 9780813117898 109 October 22 – Borisav Stanković, Serbian realist writer (born 1876) October 23 – Bernhard Alexander, Hungarian philosopher and polymath (born 1850) October 29 – Hermann Muthesius, German architect and author (born 1861) November 23 – Stanisław Przybyszewski, Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet (born 1868) December 5 – Fyodor Sologub, Russian dramatist and essayist (born 1863) December 17 – Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (born 1883)date unknown – Emma Scarr Booth, British-born American novelist and poet (born 1835) Awards James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Francis Brett Young, The Portrait of ClareJames 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 HorseNewdigate Prize for poetry: G. E. Trevelyan, Julia, Daughter of Claudius (first female winner) Nobel Prize for Literature: Henri Bergson Prix Goncourt: Maurice Bedel, Jérôme 60° latitude nordBooks Abroad https://books.google.com/books?id=2K8JAAAAIAAJ 1928 University of Oklahoma 29 Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Green, In Abraham's BosomPulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's FarewellPulitzer Prize for the Novel: Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn'' References 30em External links Popular Books of 1927 at Goodreads Published 1927 Books at Goodreads 1927 Books at Goodreads