1927 in literature

Events

• Death Comes for the Archbishop[?] by Willa Cather is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey[?] by Thornton Wilder is published. In 2001, the book would be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

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
• Der 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
• A la recherche du temps perdu (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 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, writer

Awards

• Newberry 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