1928 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. 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.

• Point Counter Point[?] by Aldous Huxley is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Huxley to 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

• 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 Barnard Letters[?] - Anthony Powell
• Beneath Tropic Seas[?] - Charles William Beebe
• 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[?]
• Hunting for Hidden Gold[?] - Franklin W. Dixon[?]
• Lady Chatterley's lover[?] - D.H. Lawrence
• Last Post[?] - Ford Maddox Ford
• Lord Peter Views the Body - Dorothy L. Sayers
• Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - Siegfried Sassoon
• A Mirror for Witches[?] - Esther Forbes[?]
• Origins of the World War[?] - Sidney Bradshaw Fay[?]
• Plum Bun, A Novel Without a Moral[?] - Jessie Redmond Fauset[?]
• Point Counter Point[?] - Aldous Huxley
• Politicians and the War[?] - Max Aitken
• Quicksand[?] - Nella Larsen
• Strange Fugitive[?] - Morley Callaghan
• The Walls of Jericho[?] - Rudolph Fisher[?]
• The Well of Loneliness[?] - Radclyffe Hall[?]

Births

• January 7 - William Peter Blatty[?], screenwriter
• January 8 - Sander Vanocur[?], journalist
• January 16 - William Kennedy[?], author
• January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
• February 5 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist
• February 9 - Frank Frazetta[?], illustrator
• February 9 - Roger Mudd[?], journalist
• December 16 - Philip K. Dick, novelist (+ 1982)

Deaths

• January 11 - Thomas Hardy, writer
• March 24 - Charlotte Mew, poet

Awards

• Newberry 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