1928 in literature
See also: 1927 in literature, other events of 1928, 1929 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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
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