1926 in literature

See also: 1925 in literature, other events of 1926, 1927 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Ford Madox 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.
• October 14 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is published for the first time.

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 Madox Ford
• Petenera's Daughter – Henry Bellamann
• Preface to Life – Zona Gale
• Ralph 124C 41+ – Hugo Gernsback
• Religion and the Rise of Capitalism – R. H. Tawney
• The Romantic Comedians – Ellen Glasgow
• Shen of the Sea – Arthur Bowie Chrisman
• These Old Shades – Georgette Heyer
• The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
• The Three Students  – Haldane MacFall
• The Ugly Duchess – Lion Feuchtwanger
• Ulich and Soracha – George A. Moore
• Winnie-the-Pooh – A.A. Milne
• The World of William Clissold – H. G. Wells

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
• November 20 – John Gardner, British novelist

Deaths

• January 14 – René Boylesve, French author
• August 1 – Israel Zangwill, English poet

Awards

• Newbery 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