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The year 1928 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New prose fiction
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

Ford Madox Ford publishes Last Post. It is the final book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
George Orwell returns from Burma.
Leslie Charteris publishes Meet - The Tiger!, the first adventure of Simon Templar, alias The Saint. Charteris would write dozens of novels and short stories featuring the character on a regular basis between 1928 and 1963, and others would continue the series until 1983.
W. H. Auden goes to Berlin.
The clerihew, the verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.

New prose fiction

Mário de Andrade - Munacaima
Leslie Barringer - Joris of the Rock
Charles William Beebe - Beneath Tropic Seas
Henry Bellamann - Crescendo
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
Morley Callaghan - Strange Fugitive
Colette - Break of Day
Agatha Christie - The Mystery of the Blue Train
Frank Parker Day - Rockbound
Franklin W. Dixon - Hunting for Hidden Gold
W. E. B. Du Bois - Dark Princess
Rudolph Fisher - The Walls of Jericho
Esther Forbes - A Mirror for Witches
Ford Madox Ford - Last Post
E. M. Forster - The Eternal Moment and Other Stories
Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
Georgette Heyer - The Masqueraders
Aldous Huxley - Point Counter Point
Ilf and Petrov - The Twelve Chairs
Joseph Kessel - Belle de Jour
Nella Larsen - Quicksand
D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
Claude McKay - Home To Harlem
W. Somerset Maugham - Ashenden
A. A. Milne - The House at Pooh Corner
Dhan Gopal Mukerji - Gay Neck
Vladimir Nabokov - King, Queen, Knave
Baroness Orczy - Skin o' My Tooth
Anthony Powell - The Barnard Letters
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
Felix Salten - Bambi, A Life in the Woods (translation; the German original had appeared in 1923)
Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Dorothy L. Sayers
- Lord Peter Views the Body
- The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Arthur Schnitzler - Therese
S. S. Van Dine
- The Greene Murder Case
- The Bishop Murder Case
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
H. G. Wells - Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
Franz Werfel - Class Reunion
Virginia Woolf - Orlando: A Biography

New drama

Bertolt Brecht - The Threepenny Opera
Eduardo De Filippo - Filosoficamente
Nikolai Erdman - The Suicide
Marieluise Fleißer - Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Garrett Fort - Jarnegan
Federico García Lorca - The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden (written)
John Howard Lawson - The International
Somerset Maugham - The Sacred Flame
R. C. Sherriff - Journey's End
Sophie Treadwell - Machinal

Poetry

Main article: 1928 in poetry

Robert Frost - West-Running Brook
Federico García Lorca - Romancero Gitano
Siegfried Sassoon - The Heart's Journey

Non-fiction

Max Aitken - Politicians and the War
Hall Caine - Recollections of Rossetti (second expanded version)
Julius Evola - Imperialismo Pagano
Sidney Bradshaw Fay - Origins of the World War
Harold Lloyd - An American Comedy (autobiography)
Margaret Mead - Coming of Age in Samoa
H. G. Wells - The Open Conspiracy

Births

January 1 - Iain Crichton Smith, Scottish writer (died 1998)
January 7 - William Peter Blatty, American writer & filmmaker
January 8 - Sander Vanocur, American journalist
January 16 - William Kennedy, American writer & journalist
January 24 - Desmond Morris, English anthropologist & writer
February 5 - Andrew Greeley, Irish-American priest & novelist
February 9 - Roger Mudd, American journalist
March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, English novelist (died 2010)
March 12 - Edward Albee, American dramatist
March 30 - Tom Sharpe, English satirical author
April 4 - Maya Angelou, American poet
April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, American screenwriter (died 1998)
April 17 - Cynthia Ozick, American author
April 24 - Martin Seymour-Smith, British poet, biographer & critic (died 1998)
May 4 - Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet
June 10 - Maurice Sendak, American children's author and illustrator (died 2012)
July 16 - Anita Brookner, English novelist
July 26 - Bernice Rubens, Welsh novelist (died 2004)
October 3 - Alvin Toffler, American futurist writer
November 2 - Paul Johnson, British historian & journalist
November 9 - Anne Sexton, American poet (died 1974)
November 11 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
December 16 - Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (died 1982)
date unknown
- Jane Grigson, British cookery writer (died 1990)

Deaths

January 8 - Juan B. Justo, Argentine journalist (born 1865)
January 11 - Thomas Hardy, English novelist & poet (born 1840)
January 19 - Hans Hinrich Wendt, German theologian (born 1853)
February 19 - Mildred Aldrich, American journalist (born 1853)
March 4 - Paul Sabatier, French religious writer (born 1858)
March 18 - Paul van Ostaijen, Flemish poet (born 1896)
March 24 - Charlotte Mew, English poet (born 1869)
April 19 - Ladislav Klíma, Czech novelist & philosopher (born 1878)
May 16 - Edmund Gosse, English poet & critic (born 1849)
July 8 - Crystal Eastman, American journalist (born 1881)
August 16 - Antonín Sova, Czech poet (born 1864)
December 16 - Elinor Wylie, American poet & novelist (born 1885)
December 19 - Italo Svevo, Italian writer (born 1861)
date unknown
- Henry Festing Jones, British biographer (born 1851)
- Isaac Markens, American journalist (born 1846)