1926 in literature

See also: 1925 in literature, other events of 1926, 1927 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Ford Maddox 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. In 2001 the collection would be named as part of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
• October 14 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is published for the first time.

New Books

• Autobiographies - W. B. Yeats
• The Castle - Franz Kafka
• Early Autumn - Louis Bromfield
• Flight - Walter F. White
• The Haunting Hand - Walter A. Roberts
• A Man Could Stand Up - Ford Maddox Ford
• Petenera's Daughter - Henry Bellamann
• Preface to Life - Zona Gale
• Religion and the Rise of Capitalism - R. H. Tawney
• The Romantic Comedians - Ellen Glasgow
• Shen of the Sea - Arthur Bowie Chrisman
• The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
• The Three Students - Haldane MacFall
• The Ugly Dutchess - Lion Feuchtwanger
• Ulich and Soracha - George A. Moore
• Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne

Births

• January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist
• 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 (+ 1997)
• July 11 - Frederick Buechner, author
• August 14 - "Goscinny" (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix

Deaths

Awards

• 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