1927 in literature
See also: 1926 in literature, other events of 1927, 1928 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- Random House, book publishers, founded in New York City by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather is published.
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder is published.
New Books
- Amerika - Franz Kafka
- Aspects of the Novel - E. M. Forster
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
- The Closed Garden - Julian Green
- La Confession de Dan Yack - Blaise Cendrars
- Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
- Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
- Go She Must! - David Garnett
- God's Trombones - James Weldon Johnson
- Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
- Jalna - Mazo De La Roche
- King of the Jews - Waverley Lewis Root
- Marching On - James Boyd
- Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne
- Philosophy and Civilization - John Dewey
- The President's Daughter - Nan Britton
- In Search of Lost Time (final installment) - Marcel Proust
- Smoky the Cowhorse - Will James
- The Snake Pit - Sigrid Undset
- Something About Eve - James Branch Cabell
- The Son Avenger - Sigrid Undset
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- The Tower Treasure - Franklin W. Dixon
Births
- February 21 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist (+ 1996)
- May 25 - Robert Ludlum, novelist (+ 2001)
- August 23 - Dick Bruna, illustrator
- October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist
Deaths
- April 16 - Gaston Leroux
- June 1 - J. B. Bury, historian
- June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, writer
- August 13 - James Oliver Curwood, American author of wilderness stories
Awards
- 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