This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1927.
Children and young people
Walter R. Brooks – To and Again (reissued 1949 as Freddy Goes to Florida)
May Justus – Peter Pocket: A Little Boy of the Cumberland Mountains
John Masefield – The Midnight Folk
A. A. Milne – Now We Are Six (verse)
Edward Wyke Smith – The Marvellous Land of Snergs (proto-Hobbits)
Henry Williamson – Tarka the Otter
Isaac Babel – Sunset
Philip Barry – Paris Bound
Noel Pemberton Billing – High Treason
Bertolt Brecht – In The Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte in its final version)
Mikhail Bulgakov – Flight («Бег», Beg, written)
Federico García Lorca – Mariana Pineda
Joseph Goebbels – Der Wanderer (only performances; written 1923)
DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward – Porgy
Vsevolod Ivanov – Armoured Train 14-69 («Бронепоезд 14-69», Bronepoezd 14-69)
George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber – The Royal Family
John Howard Lawson – Loud Speaker
Alexander Lernet-Holenia – Szene als Einleitung zu einer Totenfeier für Rainer Maria Rilke
W. Somerset Maugham – The Letter
Ernst Toller – Hoppla, We're Alive! (Hoppla, wir leben!)
Ben Travers – Thark
Jim Tully – Twenty Below
Bayard Veiller – The Trial of Mary Dugan
Roger Vitrac – The Mysteries of Love (Les Mystères de l'amour)
Emlyn Williams – Full Moon
Carl Zuckmayer – Schinderhannes
Robert Desnos – La Liberté ou l'amour! (Liberty or Love!)
Allama Iqbal – Zabur-i-Ajam (Persian Psalms)
James Joyce – Pomes Penyeach
Don Marquis – archy and mehitabel
Stanley Baldwin – On England and Other Addresses
Nan Britton – The President's Daughter
Alexandra David-Néel – My Journey to Lhasa / Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa
John Dewey – Philosophy and Civilization
J. W. Dunne – An Experiment with Time
E. M. Forster – Aspects of the Novel
Sigmund Freud – The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)
Martin Heidegger – Being and Time (Sein und Zeit)
Christopher Hussey – The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View (garden history)
John Livingston Lowes – The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination
Bertrand Russell – An Outline of Philosophy
Helen Waddell – The Wandering Scholars
January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet (died 2015)
January 16 – Oldřich Daněk, Czech dramatist (died 2000)
January 28 – Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (died 2015)
February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (died 2014)
February 6 – William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist and journalist (died 1974)
February 16 – Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi novelist (died 1971)
February 21 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist (died 1996)
March 6 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist (died 2014)
March 18 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (died 2003)
March 22 – Vera Henriksen, née Roscher Lund, Norwegian historical novelist (died 2016)
May 19 – Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (died 1991)
May 25 – Robert Ludlum, American novelist (died 2001)
May 27 – Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, Indian Malayali novelist (died 1997)
June 13 – Paul Ableman, English writer of erotic fiction and playwright (died 2006)
June 20 – Simin Behbahani, Persian poet (died 2014)
June 27 – Dominic Jeeva, Sri Lankan Tamil fiction writer and essayist
July 4 – Neil Simon, American playwright
August 15 – Patrick Galvin, Irish poet and dramatist (died 2011)
August 23 – Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator
August 24 – David Ireland, Australian novelist
August 27 – Fouad al-Tikerly, Iraqi novelist and writer (died 2008)
September 4 – Bernardino Zapponi, Italian novelist (died 2000)
September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet
October 16 – Günter Grass, German novelist (died 2015)
December 13 – James Wright, American poet (died 1980)
December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist
March 18 – Philip Wicksteed, English theologian and critic (born 1844)
March 31 – Mabel Collins, British theosophist and author (born 1851)
April 16 – Gaston Leroux, French novelist (born 1868)
May 25 – Henri Hubert, French sociologist (born 1872)
May 29 – Georges Eekhoud, Belgian novelist (born 1854)
June 1 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
June 9 – Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet (born 1857)
June 14 – Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (born 1859)
July 5 – Lesbia Harford, Australian poet (born 1891)
July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介), Japanese short story writer and poet (suicide, born 1892)
August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, American novelist and conservationist (born 1878)
August 24 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Venezuelan writer (born 1871)
September 14 – Hugo Ball, German poet (born 1886)
September 15 – Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and socialist (born 1864)
October 8
Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet (Hodgkin's disease, born 1886)
Mary Webb, English novelist (born 1881)
October 22 – Borisav Stanković, Serbian writer (born 1876)
October 23 – Bernhard Alexander, Hungarian philosopher and polymath (born 1850)
November 23 – Stanisław Przybyszewski, Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet (born 1868)
December 5 – Fyodor Sologub, Russian dramatist and essayist (born 1863)
December 17 – Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (born 1883)
Unknown date – Alfred Remy, German-born American philologist and music writer (born 1870)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Francis Brett Young, The Portrait of Clare
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: H. A. L. Fisher, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Will James, Smoky the Cow Horse
Nobel Prize for Literature: Henri Bergson
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn
1927 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
