Books - 1927 in literature

Events

• Random House, book publishers, founded in New York City by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
  by Willa Cather is published.
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  by Thornton Wilder is published.

New books

• Amerika - Franz Kafka
• Aspects of the Novel - E. M. Forster
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  - Thornton Wilder
• The Closed Garden - Julian Green
• La Confession de Dan Yack - Blaise Cendrars
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
  - Willa Cather
• Elmer Gantry
  - Sinclair Lewis
• Go She Must! - David Garnett
• God's Trombones - James Weldon Johnson
• Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
• Jalna - Mazo de la Roche
• King of the Jews - Waverley Lewis Root
• Marching On - James Boyd
• Meet Mr Mulliner
  - P.G. Wodehouse
• Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne
• Oil!
  - Upton Sinclair
• The Outlaw of Torn
  - Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Philosophy and Civilization - John Dewey
• The President's Daughter
  - Nan Britton
• In Search of Lost Time
  (final installment) - Marcel Proust
• The Small Bachelor
  - P.G. Wodehouse
• Smoky the Cowhorse - Will James
• The Snake Pit - Sigrid Undset
• Something About Eve - James Branch Cabell
• The Son Avenger - Sigrid Undset
• Steppenwolf
  - Hermann Hesse
• To the Lighthouse
  - Virginia Woolf
• The Tower Treasure - Franklin W. Dixon

Non-fiction

• J. W. Dunne - An Experiment with Time

Births

• February 21 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist (+ 1996)
• May 25 - Robert Ludlum, novelist (+ 2001)
• August 23 - Dick Bruna, illustrator
• October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist

Deaths

• April 16 - Gaston Leroux, novelist
• May 25 - Henri Hubert, sociologist
• June 1 - J. B. Bury, historian
• June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, writer
• August 13 - James Oliver Curwood, American author of wilderness stories
• September 14 - Hugo Ball, poet
• October 8 - Mary Webb, novelist

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Francis Brett Young, The Portrait of Clare
• 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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