1926 IN LITERATURE

The year '1926 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

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.

New books

★ Marcel Arland - ''Monique''

★ Henry Bellamann - ''Petenera's Daughter''

★ Louis Bromfield - ''Early Autumn''

★ 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''

★ F. Scott Fitzgerald - ''The Great Gatsby''

★ 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''

★ Haldane MacFall - ''The Three Students''

★ A.A. Milne - ''Winnie-the-Pooh''

★ Baroness Orczy

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★ ''Unravelled Knots''

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★ ''The Celestial City''

★ George A. Moore - ''Ulich and Soracha''

★ Cassiano Ricardo - ''Vamos caçar papagaios''

★ Walter A. Roberts - ''The Haunting Hand''

★ H. G. Wells - ''The World of William Clissold''

★ Walter F. White - ''Flight''

★ W. B. Yeats - ''Autobiographies''

New drama

★ Mikhail Bulgakov - ''Days of the Turbins''

★ St. John Greer Ervine - ''Anthony and Anna''

★ Sean O'Casey - ''The Plough and the Stars''

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''

★ R. H. Tawney - ''Religion and the Rise of Capitalism''

Births

★ January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist

★ February 3 - Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer (d. 1992)

★ 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, in Beat Generation (+ 1997)

★ July 11 - Frederick Buechner, author

★ August 14 - "Goscinny" (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix

★ November 20 - John Gardner, British novelist

★ ''date unknown'' - Spencer Holst, American writer and storyteller (d. 2001)

Deaths

★ January 14 – René Boylesve, French author

★ August 1 - Israel Zangwill, English poet

Awards

★ James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Radclyffe Hall, ''Adam's Breed''

★ 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''