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

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] 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.
• S. S. Van Dine publishes the first Philo Vance mystery novel.

[edit] New books

• Marcel Arland - Monique
• Isaac Babel - Red Cavalry
• Henry Bellamann - Petenera's Daughter
• Louis Bromfield - Early Autumn
• Willa Cather - My Mortal Enemy
• 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
• 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
• A. A. Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh
• George A. Moore - Ulich and Soracha
• Vladimir Nabokov - Mary
• Baroness Orczy
  • Unravelled Knots
  • The Celestial City
• Cassiano Ricardo - Vamos caçar papagaios
• Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story
• S. S. Van Dine - The Benson Murder Case
• H. G. Wells - The World of William Clissold
• Walter F. White - Flight

[edit] New drama

• Bertolt Brecht - Man Equals Man
• Mikhail Bulgakov - Days of the Turbins
• St. John Greer Ervine - Anthony and Anna
• Sean O'Casey - The Plough and the Stars

[edit] Poetry

• Mário de Andrade - Losango cáqui
• Robert McAlmon - The Portrait of a Generation
• Hugh MacDiarmid - A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

[edit] Non-fiction

• Angela Brazil - My Own Schooldays
• T. E. Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
• R. H. Tawney - Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
• William Butler Yeats - Autobiographies

[edit] Births

• January 5 - W. D. Snodgrass, American poet
• January 14 - Tom Tryon, American actor & novelist (d. 1991)
• February 3 - Richard Yates, American writer (d. 1992)
• February 15 - Dieter Lattmann, writer & politician
• February 20 - Richard Matheson, American author
• March 3 - James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
• March 24 - Dario Fo, Italian dramatist & actor
• March 27 - Frank O'Hara, American poet (d. 1966)
• March 31 - John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)
• April 28 - Harper Lee, American novelist
• May 21 - Robert Creeley, American author (d. 2005)
• June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, American Beat Generation poet (d. 1997)
• July 11 - Frederick Buechner, American author & minister
• July 18 - Elizabeth Jennings, English poet (d. 2001)
• August 14 - René Goscinny, French writer & co-creator of Asterix (d. 1977)
• August 14 - Alice Adams, American short story writer
• September 14 - Michel Butor, French writer
• October 15 - Evan Hunter, American author & screenwriter (d. 2005)
• November 20 - John Gardner, British novelist (d. 2007)
• December 1 - Elena Harlow, horror author
• December 23 - Robert Bly, American writer
• date unknown - Spencer Holst, American writer & storyteller (d. 2001)

[edit] Deaths

• January 14 - René Boylesve, French author (b. 1867)
• May 21 - Ronald Firbank, British novelist (b. 1886)
• August 1 - Israel Zangwill, English poet (b. 1964)
• December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, German language poet (b. 1875)

[edit] Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Radclyffe Hall, Adam's Breed
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Reverend Dr H. B. Workman, John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church
• 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