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The year 1927 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- Random House, book publishers, is founded in New York City by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.
New books
- James Boyd - Marching On
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Outlaw of Torn
- James Branch Cabell - Something About Eve
- Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Blaise Cendrars - La Confession de Dan Yack
- Agatha Christie - The Big Four
- Jaime de Angulo - The Lariat
- Mazo de la Roche - Jalna
- Franklin W. Dixon - The Tower Treasure
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
- David Garnett - Go She Must!
- Julien Green - The Closed Garden
- Ernest Hemingway - Hills Like White Elephants
- Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
- Will James - Smoky the Cowhorse
- James Weldon Johnson - God's Trombones
- Franz Kafka - Amerika
- Sinclair Lewis - Elmer Gantry
- A. A. Milne - Now We Are Six
- Vilhelm Moberg - Raskens
- Yury Olesha - Envy
- Baroness Orczy - Sir Percy Hits Back
- Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time (final instalment)
- Waverley Lewis Root - King of the Jews
- Upton Sinclair - Oil!
- B. Traven - Der Schatz der Sierra Madre (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
- Sigrid Undset
- The Snake Pit
- The Son Avenger
- S. S. Van Dine - The Canary Murder Case
- Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
- Arnold Zweig - Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa (The Case of Sergeant Grischa)
New drama
- Isaac Babel - Sunset
- Philip Barry - Paris Bound
- Bertolt Brecht - In The Jungle of Cities (in its final version)
- Mikhail Bulgakov - Flight (written)
- Federico García Lorca - Mariana Pineda
- DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward - Porgy
- Vsevolod Ivanov - Armoured Train 14-69
- George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber - The Royal Family
- John Howard Lawson - Loud Speaker
- W. Somerset Maugham - The Letter
- Ernst Toller - Hoppla, We're Alive!
- Jim Tully - Twenty Below
- Bayard Veiller - The Trial of Mary Dugan
Poetry
Main article: 1927 in poetry
- Robert Desnos - La liberté ou l'amour!
- Allama Iqbal - Zabur-i-Ajam (Persian Psalms)
Non-fiction
- Nan Britton - The President's Daughter
- John Dewey - Philosophy and Civilization
- J. W. Dunne - An Experiment with Time
- E. M. Forster - Aspects of the Novel
- Sigmund Freud - The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)
- Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (Sein und Zeit)
- T. E. Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- Bertrand Russell - An Outline of Philosophy
- Helen Waddell - The Wandering Scholars
Births
- January 8 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet
- February 1 - Galway Kinnell, American poet
- February 21 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996)
- March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist
- May 25 - Robert Ludlum, American novelist (d. 2001)
- July 4 - Neil Simon, American playwright
- August 23 - Dick Bruna, Dutch author & illustrator
- September 30 - W. S. Merwin, American poet
- October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist
- December 13 - James Wright, American poet (d. 1980)
Deaths
- March 18 - Philip Wicksteed, theologian and critic
- March 31 - Mabel Collins, British theosophist & author (b. 1851)
- April 16 - Gaston Leroux, French novelist (b. 1868)
- May 25 - Henri Hubert, French sociologist (b. 1872)
- May 29 - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian novelist (b. 1854)
- June 1 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
- June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (b. 1859)
- July 5 - Lesbia Harford, Australian poet (b. 1891)
- August 13 - James Oliver Curwood, American novelist & conservationist (b. 1878)
- September 14 - Hugo Ball, German poet (b. 1886)
- October 8
- Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist & poet (b. 1886)
- Mary Webb, Engligh novelist (b. 1881)
- December 5 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian dramatist & essayist (b. 1863)
- date unknown
- Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet (b. 1857)
- Alfred Remy, American philologist & music writer (b. 1870)
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Francis Brett Young, The Portrait of Clare
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:H. A. L. Fisher, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.
- 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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