1929 in literature

See also: 1928 in literature, other events of 1929, 1930 in literature, list of years in literature.

New Books

• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
• Everlasting Man - G. K. Chesterton
• The Sound and the Fury and Sartoris - William Faulkner
• Flowering Judas - Katherine Anne Porter
• The Trumpeter of Krakow - Eric P. Kelly
• A Preface to Morals - Walter Lippmann
• A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
• A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
• Kiki’s Memoirs - Kiki
• Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
• The Romantic Adventures of Rosy, The Octoroon; With Some Account of the Persecution of the Southern Negro During the Reconstruction Period - Albert Evander Coleman
• Passing - Nella Larsen
• The Near and the Far - Leopold Myers
• Banjo - Claude McKay
• The Mind Reader - Walter A. Roberts
• In the Wilderness - Sigrid Undset
• Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
• A Charmed Circle - Anna Kavan

Births

• January 26 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer
• February 17 - Chaim Potok, author (+ 2002)

Deaths

• June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet

Awards

• Nobel Prize in literature: Thomas Mann
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Julia Peterkin - Scarlet Sister Mary
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet: John Brown's Body