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The year 1926 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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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.
New books
- Marcel Arland - Monique
- Isaac Babel - Red Cavalry
- Henry Bellamann - Petenera's Daughter
- Louis Bromfield - Early Autumn
- Willa Cather - My Mortal Enemy
- 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
- 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
- A. A. Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh
- George A. Moore - Ulich and Soracha
- Vladimir Nabokov - Mary
- Baroness Orczy
- Unravelled Knots
- The Celestial City
- Cassiano Ricardo - Vamos caçar papagaios
- Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story
- S. S. Van Dine - The Benson Murder Case
- H. G. Wells - The World of William Clissold
- Walter F. White - Flight
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
Poetry
Main article: 1926 in poetry
- Mário de Andrade - Losango cáqui
- Robert McAlmon - The Portrait of a Generation
- Hugh MacDiarmid - A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Non-fiction
- Angela Brazil - My Own Schooldays
- T. E. Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- R. H. Tawney - Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
- William Butler Yeats - Autobiographies
Births
- January 5 - W. D. Snodgrass, American poet
- January 14 - Tom Tryon, American actor & novelist (d. 1991)
- February 3 - Richard Yates, American writer (d. 1992)
- February 15 - Dieter Lattmann, writer & politician
- February 20 - Richard Matheson, American author
- March 3 - James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
- March 24 - Dario Fo, Italian dramatist & actor
- March 27 - Frank O'Hara, American poet (d. 1966)
- March 31 - John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)
- April 28 - Harper Lee, American novelist
- May 21 - Robert Creeley, American author (d. 2005)
- June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, American Beat Generation poet (d. 1997)
- July 11 - Frederick Buechner, American author & minister
- July 18 - Elizabeth Jennings, English poet (d. 2001)
- August 14 - René Goscinny, French writer & co-creator of Asterix (d. 1977)
- August 14 - Alice Adams, American short story writer
- September 14 - Michel Butor, French writer
- October 15 - Evan Hunter, American author & screenwriter (d. 2005)
- November 20 - John Gardner, British novelist (d. 2007)
- December 1 - Elena Harlow, horror author
- December 23 - Robert Bly, American writer
- date unknown - Spencer Holst, American writer & storyteller (d. 2001)
Deaths
- January 14 - René Boylesve, French author (b. 1867)
- May 21 - Ronald Firbank, British novelist (b. 1886)
- August 1 - Israel Zangwill, English poet (b. 1964)
- December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, German language poet (b. 1875)
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
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