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.Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley is published.
New booksAll Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria RemarqueAn American Comedy - Harold Lloyd, autobiography Ashenden - W. Somerset MaughamBambi, A Life In The Woods - Felix SaltenThe Barnard Letters - Anthony PowellBeneath Tropic Seas - Charles William Beebe Coming of Age in Samoa - Margaret Mead Confessions Of A Negro Preacher - AnonymousCrescendo - Henry BellamannDark Princess - W. E. B. DuBois Daughter of Allah - F. Elliott Durant & Cuthbert RoachDecline and Fall - Evelyn WaughThe Eternal Moment and Other Stories - E. M. ForsterGay Neck - Dhan Gopal Mukerji Home To Harlem - Claude McKayHunting for Hidden Gold - Franklin W. DixonLady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. LawrenceLast Post - Ford Madox Ford Lord Peter Views the Body - Dorothy L. SayersThe Masqueraders – Georgette HeyerMemoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - Siegfried SassoonA Mirror for Witches - Esther ForbesMr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island - H. G. WellsThe Open Conspiracy - H. G. WellsOrigins of the World War - Sidney Bradshaw Fay - Virginia WoolfPlum Bun, A Novel Without a Moral - Jessie Redmond FausetPoint Counter Point - Aldous HuxleyPoliticians and the War - Max Aitken Quicksand - Nella LarsenThe Sacred Flame (play) - William Somerset MaughamStrange Fugitive - Morley CallaghanThe 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 November 9 - Anne Sexton, poet December 16 - Philip K. Dick, novelist
Deaths January 11 - Thomas Hardy, writer March 24 - Charlotte Mew, poet
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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