1929 in literature

Events

• Candide by Voltaire was declared obscene by the United States Customs and seized in 1930.

• A High Wind in Jamaica[?] by Richard Hughes 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.

• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Hemingway to be named to the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Faulkner to be named to the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• Bambi[?] - Felix Salten[?]
• Banjo[?] - Claude McKay[?]
• The Blacker the Berry[?] - Wallace Thurman[?]
• Borgia[?] - Zona Gale[?]
• A Charmed Circle[?] - Anna Kavan[?]
• The Dark Journey[?] - Julian Green[?]
• Dodsworth - Sinclair Lewis
• Everlasting Man[?] - G. K. Chesterton
• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
• Flowering Judas[?] - Katherine Anne Porter[?]
• Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
• A High Wind in Jamaica[?] - Richard Hughes
• In the Wilderness[?] - Sigrid Undset
• The Innocent Voyage[?] - Richard Hughes
• Kiki's Memoirs[?] - Kiki
• Look Homeward, Angel[?] - Thomas Wolfe
• The Magnificent Obsession[?] - Lloyd C. Douglas[?]
• The Mind Reader[?] - Walter A. Roberts[?]
• The Near and the Far[?] - Leopold Myers[?]
• Passing - Nella Larsen
• Peder Victorious[?] - O.E. Rolvaag[?]
• The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley[?]
• A Preface to Morals[?] - Walter Lippmann
• The Roman Hat Mystery[?] - Ellery Queen
• The Romantic Adventures of Rosy, The Octoroon; With Some Account of the Persecution of the Southern Negro During the Reconstruction Period[?] - Albert Evander Coleman[?]
• A Room of One's Own[?] - Virginia Woolf
• Rope (novel)[?] - Patrick Hamilton[?]
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
• The Trumpeter of Krakow[?] - Eric P. Kelly

Births

• January 26 - Jules Feiffer[?], cartoonist, writer
• February 17 - Chaim Potok, author (+ 2002)

Deaths

• June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
• Nobel Prize in literature: Thomas Mann
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Elmer L. Rice[?], Street Scene
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet[?]: John Brown's Body
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Julia Peterkin[?] - Scarlet Sister Mary