1926 in literature

Events

• Ford Maddox 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. 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.

New Books

• Autobiographies[?] - W. B. Yeats
• The Castle[?] - Franz Kafka
• Early Autumn[?] - Louis Bromfield[?]
• Flight[?] - Walter F. White[?]
• The Haunting Hand[?] - Walter A. Roberts[?]
• A Man Could Stand Up[?] - Ford Maddox Ford
• Petenera's Daughter[?] - Henry Bellamann[?]
• Preface to Life[?] - Zona Gale[?]
• Religion and the Rise of Capitalism[?] - R. H. Tawney[?]
• The Romantic Comedians[?] - Ellen Glasgow[?]
• Shen of the Sea[?] - Arthur Bowie Chrisman[?]
• The Sun Also Rises[?] - Ernest Hemingway
• The Three Students[?] - Haldane MacFall[?]
• The Ugly Dutchess[?] - Lion Feuchtwanger[?]
• Ulich and Soracha[?] - George A. Moore
• Winnie-the-Pooh[?] - A.A. Milne

Births

• January 14 - Tom Tryon[?], actor, novelist
• February 15 - Dieter Lattmann[?], writer and politician
• February 20 - Richard Matheson, author
• March 31 - John Fowles, writer
• April 28 - Harper Lee, US novelist
• June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, US poet (+ 1997)
• July 11 - Frederick Buechner, author
• August 14 - "Goscinny" (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix

Deaths

Awards

• Newberry 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