1926 in literature
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The year 1926 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] New books
- Marcel Arland - Monique
- Isaac Babel - Red Cavalry
- Henry Bellamann - Petenera's Daughter
- Louis Bromfield - Early Autumn
- Arthur Bowie Chrisman - Shen of the Sea
- James R. Crowell & Samuel C. Hildreth - The Spell of the Turf
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Land of Mist
- Lion Feuchtwanger - The Ugly Duchess
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- 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
- Haldane MacFall - The Three Students
- A.A. Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh
- Baroness Orczy
- Unravelled Knots
- The Celestial City
- George A. Moore - Ulich and Soracha
- Cassiano Ricardo - Vamos caçar papagaios
- Walter A. Roberts - The Haunting Hand
- S. S. Van Dine - The Benson Murder Case
- H. G. Wells - The World of William Clissold
- Walter F. White - Flight
- William Butler Yeats - Autobiographies
[edit] 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
[edit] Poetry
- Mário de Andrade - Losango cáqui
- Robert McAlmon - The Portrait of a Generation
- Hugh MacDiarmid - A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
[edit] Non-fiction
- Angela Brazil - My Own Schooldays
- R. H. Tawney - Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
E. E. Cummings
[edit] Births
- January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist
- February 3 - Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer (d. 1992)
- February 15 - Dieter Lattmann, writer and politician
- February 20 - Richard Matheson, author
- March 31 - John Fowles, writer
- April 28 - Harper Lee, US novelist
- June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, US poet, in Beat Generation (+ 1997)
- July 11 - Frederick Buechner, author
- August 14 - "Goscinny" (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix
- November 20 - John Gardner, British novelist
- December 1 - Elena Harlow - horror author
- date unknown - Spencer Holst, American writer and storyteller (d. 2001)
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 – René Boylesve, French author
- August 1 - Israel Zangwill, English poet
[edit] 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
