1927 in literature 1927 .Events January – The Books Kinokuniya bookstore business is established in Tokyo . February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the Académie des femmes , an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris salon . Others honored include Colette , Anna Wickham , Rachilde , Lucie Delarue-Mardrus , Mina Loy , Djuna Barnes , and posthumously, Renée Vivien . May 5 – Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel To the Lighthouse is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism , June 29 – T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian , is baptised into the Church of England at Finstock . In November he takes British citizenship . July 7 – James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris. July 9 – P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", published in the U.S. magazine Liberty , introduces Lord Emsworth's prize pig, the Empress of Blandings . The first UK appearance follows in the August issue of The Strand Magazine ). August – T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi appears in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series in London, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. September – Eric Blair decides while on leave from the Imperial Police in Burma to remain in the U.K. He moves to London to become a writer. October – Victor Gollancz founds the London publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd . December – Agatha Christie's fictional amateur detective Miss Marple makes a first appearance in "The Tuesday Night Club", published in The Royal Magazine . Uncertain dates Fiction Djamaluddin Adinegoro – Darah Muda Ion Agârbiceanu – Legea minții Arthur Bernède – Belphégor Tjoe Hong Bok – Setangan Berloemoer Darah 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 Warwick Deeping – Kitty Ding Ling – Miss Sophia's Diary Arthur Conan Doyle – The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes William Faulkner – Mosquitoes David Garnett – Go She Must! Julien Green – The Closed Garden Ernest Hemingway – Men Without Women Hermann Hesse – Steppenwolf James Weldon Johnson – God's Trombones Franz Kafka – Amerika Kwee Tek Hoay – Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang Ze'ev Jabotinsky – Samson D. H. Lawrence – John Thomas and Lady Jane Halldór Laxness – Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír Rosamond Lehmann – Dusty Answer Sinclair Lewis – Elmer Gantry Marie Belloc Lowndes – The Story of Ivy Philip MacDonald – Patrol Compton Mackenzie * Rogues and Vagabonds * Vestal Fire François Mauriac – Thérèse Desqueyroux Vilhelm Moberg – Raskens Paul Morand – The Living Buddha Mourning Dove – Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range Yury Olesha – Envy Baroness Orczy – Sir Percy Hits Back T. F. Powys – Mr. Weston's Good Wine J.B. Priestley – Benighted Marcel Proust – Le Temps retrouvé Waverley Lewis Root – King of the Jews Joseph Roth – Flight without End Rafael Sabatini – The Nuptials of Corbal Dorothy L. Sayers – Unnatural Death Upton Sinclair – Oil! Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – The Garin Death Ray B. Traven – Der Schatz der Sierra Madre Sigrid Undset *The Snake Pit *The Son Avenger S. S. Van Dine – The Canary Murder Case Edgar Wallace *The Forger *The Squeaker * Terror Keep *The Traitor's Gate 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 Eiji Yoshikawa – Naruto Hitcho Arnold Zweig – Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa Children and young people Walter R. Brooks – To and Again Franklin W. Dixon – The Tower Treasure Will James – Smoky the Cowhorse May Justus – Peter Pocket: A Little Boy of the Cumberland Mountains John Masefield – The Midnight Folk A. A. Milne – Now We Are Six Edward Wyke Smith – The Marvellous Land of Snergs Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Gnome King of Oz Constancio C. Vigil *:es:Botón Tolón|Botón Tolón *Cuentos para niños *La hormiguita viajera *Los escarabajos y la moneda de oro Drama Isaac Babel – Sunset Philip Barry – Paris Bound Noel Pemberton Billing – High Treason Bertolt Brecht – In The Jungle of Cities Mikhail Bulgakov – Flight Federico García Lorca – Mariana Pineda Joseph Goebbels – Der Wanderer DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward – Porgy Vsevolod Ivanov – Armoured Train 14-69 Georgia Douglas Johnson – Plumes George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber – The Royal Family John Howard Lawson – Loud Speaker Alexander Lernet-Holenia – Szene als Einleitung zu einer Totenfeier für Rainer Maria Rilke Frederick Lonsdale – The High Road W. Somerset Maugham – The Letter Ernst Toller – Hoppla, We're Alive! Ben Travers – Thark Jim Tully – Twenty Below John Van Druten *Chance Acquaintance *Diversion Bayard Veiller – The Trial of Mary Dugan Roger Vitrac – The Mysteries of Love Edgar Wallace *Double Dan *The Terror Emlyn Williams – Full Moon Carl Zuckmayer – Schinderhannes Poetry Robert Desnos – La Liberté ou l'amour! Allama Iqbal – Zabur-i-Ajam James Joyce – Pomes Penyeach Don Marquis – archy and mehitabel Non-fiction Stanley Baldwin – On England and Other Addresses Nan Britton – The President's Daughter Alexandra David-Néel – My Journey to Lhasa / Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa John Dewey – Philosophy and Civilization J. W. Dunne – An Experiment with Time Walter Evans-Wentz – The Tibetan Book of the Dead E. M. Forster – Aspects of the Novel Sigmund Freud – The Future of an Illusion Martin Heidegger – Being and Time Christopher Hussey – The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View Ernst Kantorowicz – Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite John Livingston Lowes – The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination Bertrand Russell – An Outline of Philosophy Helen Waddell – The Wandering Scholars Births January 8 – Charles Tomlinson , English poet January 16 – Oldřich Daněk , Czech dramatist January 24 * Lasse Pöysti , Finnish writer, playwright and actor *Marvin Kaplan, American actor, screenwriter and playwright January 25 – John Calder , Canadian-born Scottish publisher January 28 – Vera Williams , American author and illustrator February 1 – Galway Kinnell , American poet February 6 – William Gardner Smith , expatriate American novelist and journalist February 16 – Shahidullah Kaiser , Bangladeshi novelist February 21 – Erma Bombeck , American humorist March 6 – Gabriel García Márquez , Colombian novelist March 15 – Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , German journalist March 18 – George Plimpton , American writer and actor March 22 – Vera Henriksen , née Roscher Lund, Norwegian historical novelist April 2 – Kenneth Tynan , English theatre critic May 19 – Yusuf Idris , Egyptian writer May 25 – Robert Ludlum , American novelist May 27 – Malayattoor Ramakrishnan , Indian Malayali novelist May 28 – William A. Hilliard, American journalist June 6 – Alan Seymour , Australian playwright June 13 – Paul Ableman , English writer of erotic fiction and playwright June 20 – Simin Behbahani , Persian poet June 24 – Frederick Vreeland , American diplomat and writer June 27 – Dominic Jeeva , Ceylonese Tamil fiction writer and essayist June 30 – James Goldman , American screenwriter and playwright July 4 – Neil Simon , American playwright July 15 – Ann Jellicoe , British playwright , stage director and actress July 22 – Katharine Topkins , American novelist July 27 – John Seigenthaler , American journalist, writer and political figure July 31 – Peter Nichols , English playwright August 9 – Robert Shaw , English-born actor, novelist and playwright August 15 – Patrick Galvin , Irish poet and dramatist August 17 – Stefan Geosits , Burgenland Croatian writer, translator August 23 – Dick Bruna , Dutch author and illustrator August 24 – David Ireland , Australian novelist August 27 – Fouad al-Tikerly , Iraqi novelist and writer September 4 – Bernardino Zapponi , Italian novelist September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet October 7 – Robert Westall , English novelist and children's writer October 16 – Günter Grass , German novelist October 31 – Sybil Wettasinghe , Ceylonese children's writer and illustrator November 16 – Franz Jalics , Hungarian Jesuit priest and author November 24 – Charles Osborne , Australian-born British writer and arts administrator December 13 – James Wright , American poet December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark , American novelistDeaths February 26 – Alfred Remy , German-born American philologist and music writer March 18 – Philip Wicksteed , English theologian and critic March 31 – Mabel Collins , British theosophist and author April 16 – Gaston Leroux , French novelist May 25 – Henri Hubert , French sociologist May 29 – Georges Eekhoud , Belgian novelist June 1 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian June 9 – Adolfo León Gómez , Colombian poet June 14 – Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer June 20 – Clara Louise Burnham , American novelist July 5 – Lesbia Harford , Australian poet July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Japanese short story writer and poet August 13 – James Oliver Curwood , American novelist and conservationist August 24 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez , Venezuelan writer September 14 – Hugo Ball , German poet September 15 – Herman Gorter , Dutch poet and socialist October 8 *Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet *Mary Webb, English novelist October 22 – Borisav Stanković , Serbian writer October 23 – Bernhard Alexander , Hungarian philosopher and polymath November 23 – Stanisław Przybyszewski , Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet December 5 – Fyodor Sologub , Russian dramatist and essayist December 17 – Hubert Harrison , African-American writer, critic, and activistAwards 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
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