See also: 1926 in literature, other events of 1927, 1928 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New Books
- Amerika - Franz Kafka
- Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
- Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
- Smoky the Cowhorse - Will James
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Aspects of the Novel - E. M. Forster
- The Tower Treasure - Franklin W. Dixon
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
- Philosophy and Civilization - John Dewey
- A la recherche du temps perdu (final installment) - Marcel Proust
- Go She Must! - David Garnett
- The Snake Pit - Sigrid Undset
- The Son Avenger - Sigrid Undset
- Jalna - Mazo De La Roche
- Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne
- King of the Jews - Waverley Lewis Root
- Marching On - James Boyd
- The Closed Garden - Julian Green
- Der Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Births
- February 21 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist (+ 1996)
- August 23 - Dick Bruna, illustrator
- October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist
Deaths
- June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, writer
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Henri Bergson
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom