1928 in literature
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See also: 1927 in literature, other events of 1928, 1929 in literature, list of years in literature.
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.
- George Orwell returns from Burma.
- Leslie Charteris publishes Meet the Tiger, the first adventure of Simon Templar, alias The Saint. Charteris would write dozens of novels and short stories featuring the character on a regular basis between 1928 and 1963, and others would continue the series until 1983.
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 German original had appeared in 1923.
- The Barnard Letters - Anthony Powell
- Beneath Tropic Seas - Charles William Beebe
- Class Reunion - Franz Werfel
- 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
- The House at Pooh Corner - A. A. Milne
- 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
- The Masqueraders – Georgette Heyer
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - Siegfried Sassoon
- A Mirror for Witches - Esther Forbes
- Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island - H. G. Wells
- The Open Conspiracy - H. G. Wells
- Origins of the World War - Sidney Bradshaw Fay
- - Virginia Woolf
- Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley
- Politicians and the War - Max Aitken
- Quicksand - Nella Larsen
- Romancero Gitano - Federico García Lorca
- Strange Fugitive - Morley Callaghan
- Therese - Arthur Schnitzler
- The Twelve Chairs - Ilf and Petrov
- The Walls of Jericho - Rudolph Fisher
- The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
New drama
- Bertolt Brecht - The Threepenny Opera
- Eduardo De Filippo - Filosoficamente
- William Somerset Maugham - The Sacred Flame
- R. C. Sherriff - Journey's End
Poetry
- Robert Frost - West-Running Brook
Births
- January 7 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter
- January 8 - Sander Vanocur, journalist
- January 16 - William Kennedy, journalist
- January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
- February 5 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist
- February 9 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator
- February 9 - Roger Mudd, journalist
- March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, novelist
- March 12 - Edward Albee, dramatist
- March 30 - Tom Sharpe, satirical novelist
- April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, screenwriter
- June 10 - Maurice Sendak, children's author and illustrator
- July 16 - Anita Brookner, novelist
- July 26 - Bernice Rubens, novelist
- October 3 - Alvin Toffler, futurist writer
- November 2 - Paul Johnson (journalist)
- November 9 - Anne Sexton, poet
- December 16 - Philip K. Dick, novelist
- unknown date - Jane Grigson, cookery writer
- unknown date - Martin Seymour-Smith, biographer and critic
Deaths
- January 11 - Thomas Hardy, writer
- March 4 - Paul Sabatier, religious writer
- March 24 - Charlotte Mew, poet
- May 16 - Edmund Gosse, poet and critic
- December 16 - Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- 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
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