1928 in literature
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The year 1928 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events [edit]
- April 19 - Publication of the Oxford English Dictionary is completed.
- Spring - George Orwell moves from London to Paris; his first articles as a professional writer are published later in the year.
- Autumn - W. H. Auden goes to Berlin.
- Leslie Charteris publishes Meet the Tiger, the first adventure of Simon Templar, alias The Saint. Charteris will write dozens of novels and short stories featuring the character on a regular basis between 1928 and 1963, and others will continue the series until 1983.
- Ford Madox Ford publishes Last Post, last in his World War I tetralogy Parade's End published since 1924.
- D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is published in Florence; it will not be published in an unexpurgated edition in Britain until 1960.
- The clerihew, the comic verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.
New prose fiction [edit]
- 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
- Agatha Christie - The Mystery of the Blue Train
- Colette - Break of Day
- 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
- August Gailit - Toomas Nipernaadi
- Reşat Nuri Güntekin - Yeşil Gece
- Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness
- Georgette Heyer - The Masqueraders
- Aldous Huxley - Point Counter Point
- Ilf and Petrov - The Twelve Chairs
- Joseph Kessel - Belle de Jour
- Selma Lagerlöf - Anna Svärd
- Nella Larsen - Quicksand
- D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Claude McKay - Home To Harlem
- W. Somerset Maugham - Ashenden: Or the British Agent[1]
- A. A. Milne - The House at Pooh Corner
- Abdul Muis - Salah Asuhan
- 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
- Arthur Schnitzler - Therese
- S. S. Van Dine
- Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
- H. G. Wells - Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
- Franz Werfel - Class Reunion
- Virginia Woolf - Orlando: A Biography
New drama [edit]
- 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
- W. Somerset Maugham - The Sacred Flame
- R. C. Sherriff - Journey's End
- Sophie Treadwell - Machinal
- Edgar Wallace - The Man Who Changed His Name
Poetry [edit]
Main article: 1928 in poetry
- Robert Frost - West-Running Brook
- Federico García Lorca - Romancero Gitano
- Siegfried Sassoon - The Heart's Journey
Non-fiction [edit]
- Max Aitken - Politicians and the War
- Edmund Blunden - Undertones of War (autobiography)
- 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 [edit]
- January 1 - Iain Crichton Smith, Scottish writer (died 1998)
- January 7 - William Peter Blatty, American writer and filmmaker
- January 8 - Sander Vanocur, American journalist
- January 16 - William Kennedy, American writer and journalist
- January 24 - Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer
- February 5 - Andrew Greeley, Irish-American priest and novelist
- February 9 - Roger Mudd, American journalist
- March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, English novelist (died 2010)
- March 12 - Edward Albee, American dramatist
- March 13 - Jane Grigson, British cookery writer (died 1990)
- 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 and 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
- Robert Sheckley, American writer (died 2005)
- July 26 - Bernice Rubens, Welsh novelist (died 2004)
- September 6 - Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher and author
- September 20 - Donald Hall, American poet and U.S. Poet Laureate
- October 3 - Alvin Toffler, American futurist writer
- October 10 – Sheila F. Walsh, English novelist (died 2009)
- November 2 - Paul Johnson, British historian and 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)
Deaths [edit]
- January 8 - Juan B. Justo, Argentine journalist (born 1865)
- January 11 - Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (born 1840)
- January 19 - Hans Hinrich Wendt, German theologian (born 1853)
- January 28 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish novelist, journalist and politician (born 1867)
- 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
- Didrik Hegermann Grønvold, Norwegian novelist (born 1855)
- Charlotte Mew, English poet (born 1869; suicide)
- April 19 - Ladislav Klíma, Czech novelist and philosopher (born 1878)
- May 16 - Edmund Gosse, English poet and critic (born 1849)
- May 22 - Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (born 1904; suicide
- July 8 - Crystal Eastman, American journalist (born 1881)
- August - Isaac Markens, American journalist (born 1846)[2]
- August 16 - Antonín Sova, Czech poet (born 1864)
- August 24 - Oskar Jerschke, German dramatist (born 1861)
- December 16 - Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (born 1885; stroke)
- December 19 - Italo Svevo, Italian writer (born 1861)
- date unknown - Henry Festing Jones, British biographer (born 1851)
Awards [edit]
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Buchan, Montrose
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Sigrid Undset
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Tristram
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
References [edit]
- ^ Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.
- ^ New York Times, August 1928.
