1927 in literature

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The year 1927 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Random House, book publishers, is founded in New York City by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.

New prose fiction

• Djamaluddin Adinegoro - Darah Muda ("Young Blood")
• 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
• Rosamond Lehmann - Dusty Answer
• Sinclair Lewis - Elmer Gantry
• Waverley Lewis Root - King of the Jews
• 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)
• Joseph Roth - Flight without End
• Dorothy L. Sayers - Unnatural Death
• 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
  • Meet Mr Mulliner
  • The Small Bachelor
• 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

• 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 6 - William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist & journalist
• February 21 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (died 1996)
• March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist
• May 25 - Robert Ludlum, American novelist (died 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 (died 1980)

Deaths

• March 18 - Philip Wicksteed, theologian and critic
• March 31 - Mabel Collins, British theosophist & author (born 1851)
• April 16 - Gaston Leroux, French novelist (born 1868)
• May 25 - Henri Hubert, French sociologist (born 1872)
• May 29 - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian novelist (born 1854)
• June 1 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
• June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (born 1859)
• July 5 - Lesbia Harford, Australian poet (born 1891)
• August 13 - James Oliver Curwood, American novelist & conservationist (born 1878)
• September 14 - Hugo Ball, German poet (born 1886)
• October 8
  • Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist & poet (born 1886)
  • Mary Webb, Engligh novelist (born 1881)
• December 5 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian dramatist & essayist (born 1863)
• date unknown
  • Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet (born 1857)
  • Alfred Remy, American philologist & music writer (born 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