1928 in literature
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See also: 1927 in literature, other events of 1928, 1929 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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. In 2001 the collection would be named as part of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
- Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Huxley to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
New Books
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- An American Comedy - Harold Lloyd, autobiography
- Ashenden - W. Somerset Maugham
- Bambi, A Life In The Woods - Felix Salten
- The Barnard Letters - Anthony Powell
- Beneath Tropic Seas - Charles William Beebe
- Coming of Age in Samoa - Margaret Mead
- Confessions Of A Negro Preacher - Anonymous
- Crescendo - Henry Bellamann
- Dark Princess - W. E. B. DuBois
- Daughter of Allah - F. Elliott Durant & Cuthbert Roach
- Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
- The Eternal Moment and Other Stories - E. M. Forster
- Gay Neck - Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- Home To Harlem - Claude McKay
- Hunting for Hidden Gold - Franklin W. Dixon
- Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
- Last Post - Ford Madox Ford
- Lord Peter Views the Body - Dorothy L. Sayers
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - Siegfried Sassoon
- A Mirror for Witches - Esther Forbes
- Origins of the World War - Sidney Bradshaw Fay
- Plum Bun, A Novel Without a Moral - Jessie Redmond Fauset
- Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley
- Politicians and the War - Max Aitken
- Quicksand - Nella Larsen
- Strange Fugitive - Morley Callaghan
- The Walls of Jericho - Rudolph Fisher
- The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
Births
- January 7 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter
- January 8 - Sander Vanocur, journalist
- January 16 - William Kennedy, author
- January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
- February 5 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist
- February 9 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator
- February 9 - Roger Mudd, journalist
- November 9 - Anne Sexton, poet
- December 16 - Philip K. Dick, novelist
Deaths
- January 11 - Thomas Hardy, writer
- March 24 - Charlotte Mew, poet
Awards
- 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
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "1928_in_literature" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_in_literature, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
