1928 in literature
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See also: 1927 in literature, other events of 1928, 1929 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] 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, verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.
[edit] 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
- Confessions Of A Negro Preacher (anonymous)
- Frank Parker Day - Rockbound
- Franklin W. Dixon - Hunting for Hidden Gold
- W. E. B. DuBois - 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
- 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
- Arthur Schnitzler - Therese
- Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
- H. G. Wells - Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
- Franz Werfel - Class Reunion
- Virginia Woolf - Orlando: A Biography
[edit] New drama
- Bertolt Brecht - The Threepenny Opera
- Eduardo De Filippo - Filosoficamente
- Garrett Fort - Jarnegan
- William Somerset Maugham - The Sacred Flame
- R. C. Sherriff - Journey's End
- Sophie Treadwell - Machinal
[edit] Poetry
- Robert Frost - West-Running Brook
- Federico García Lorca - Romancero Gitano
- Siegfried Sassoon - The Heart's Journey
[edit] Non-fiction
- Max Aitken - Politicians and the War
- Hall Caine - Recollections of Rossetti - second expanded version
- 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
[edit] Births
- January 7 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter
- January 8 - Sander Vanocur, journalist
- January 16 - William Kennedy, journalist
- January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
- February 5 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist
- February 9 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator
- February 9 - Roger Mudd, journalist
- March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, novelist
- March 12 - Edward Albee, dramatist
- March 30 - Tom Sharpe, satirical novelist
- April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, screenwriter
- June 10 - Maurice Sendak, children's author and illustrator
- July 16 - Anita Brookner, novelist
- July 26 - Bernice Rubens, novelist
- October 3 - Alvin Toffler, futurist writer
- November 2 - Paul Johnson, historian and journalist
- November 9 - Anne Sexton, poet
- December 16 - Philip K. Dick, novelist
- unknown date
- Jane Grigson, cookery writer
- Martin Seymour-Smith, biographer and critic
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - Juan B. Justo, journalist
- January 11 - Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet
- January 19 - Hans Hinrich Wendt, theologian
- February 19 - Mildred Aldrich, journalist
- March 4 - Paul Sabatier, religious writer
- March 18 - Paul van Ostaijen, poet
- March 24 - Charlotte Mew, poet (suicide)
- April 19 - Ladislav Klíma, novelist and philosopher
- May 16 - Edmund Gosse, poet and critic
- July 8 - Crystal Eastman, journalist
- August 16 - Antonín Sova, poet
- October 20 - Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder and an inspiration for Little House on the Prairie
- December 16 - Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist
- date unknown
- Henry Festing Jones, biographer
- Isaac Markens, journalist
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- 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
