1928 in literature

See also: 1927 in literature, other events of 1928, 1929 in literature, list of years 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.
• George Orwell returns from Burma.

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
• The House at Pooh Corner – A. A. Milne
• Hunting for Hidden Gold – Franklin W. Dixon
• Lady Chatterley's Lover – D.H. Lawrence
• Last Post – Ford Madox Ford
• Lord Peter Views the Body – Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Masqueraders – Georgette Heyer
• Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man – Siegfried Sassoon
• A Mirror for Witches – Esther Forbes
• Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island – H. G. Wells
• The Open Conspiracy – H. G. Wells
• Origins of the World War – Sidney Bradshaw Fay
• Orlando: A Biography – Virginia Woolf
• 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

New drama

• The Sacred Flame – William Somerset Maugham
• The Threepenny Opera – Bertolt Brecht

Births

• January 7 – William Peter Blatty, screenwriter
• January 8 – Sander Vanocur, journalist
• January 16 – William Kennedy, journalist
• January 24 – Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
• February 5 – Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist
• February 9 – Frank Frazetta, illustrator
• February 9 – Roger Mudd, journalist
• March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, novelist
• March 12 – Edward Albee, dramatist
• March 30 – Tom Sharpe, satirical novelist
• April 7 – Alan J. Pakula, screenwriter
• June 10 – Maurice Sendak, children's author and illustrator
• July 16 – Anita Brookner, novelist
• July 26 – Bernice Rubens, novelist
• October 3 – Alvin Toffler, futurist writer
• November 2 – Paul Johnson (journalist)
• November 9 – Anne Sexton, poet
• December 16 – Philip K. Dick, novelist
• unknown date – Jane Grigson, cookery writer
• unknown date – Martin Seymour-Smith, biographer and critic

Deaths

• January 11 – Thomas Hardy, writer
• March 4 – Paul Sabatier, religious writer
• March 24 – Charlotte Mew, poet
• May 16 – Edmund Gosse, poet and critic
• December 16 – Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist

Awards

• Newbery 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