This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1929.
Children and young people
Marjorie Barnard (with Flora Eldershaw, as M. Barnard Eldershaw) – A House Is Built
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the Lost Empire
Catherine Christian – The Luck of the Scallop Shell
Josephine Elder – Evelyn Finds Herself
Erich Kästner – Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive)
Eric P. Kelly – The Trumpeter of Krakow
William Maxwell Reed – The Earth for Sam; the story of mountains, rivers, dinosaurs and men (non-fiction)
Alison Uttley – The Squirrel, The Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit (introducing Little Grey Rabbit)
Jacinto Benavente – Vidas cruzadas ("Short Cuts")
Henri Bernstein – Mélo
Bertolt Brecht – The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent (Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis)
St. John Ervine – The First Mrs. Fraser
Jean Giraudoux – Amphitryon 38
Patrick Hamilton – Rope
Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Rustom O Sohrab
Kaj Munk – I Brændingen
[Eugene O'Neill]] – Dynamo
Stanisława Przybyszewska – The Danton Case (Sprawa Dantona)
Elmer Rice – Street Scene
George Bernard Shaw – The Apple Cart
Ahmed Shawqi – Masraa' Kliyubatra ("The Death of Cleopatra")
Ödön von Horváth – Rund um den Kongreß
Robinson Jeffers – Dear Judas and Other Poems
W. B. Yeats – The Winding Stair
Ada Boni – Il talismano della felicità (The Talisman of Happiness)
G. K. Chesterton – The Everlasting Man
Aleister Crowley – Magick in Theory and Practice
Mahatma Gandhi – The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Robert Graves – Goodbye to All That
Walter Lippmann – A Preface to Morals
A. A. Milne – Those Were the Days
Tomas O'Crohan – An t-Oileánach ("The Islandman")
Charles Kay Ogden – Basic English
Alice Prin – Kiki's Memoirs
I. A. Richards – Practical Criticism
Various authors – Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress: essays in support of James Joyce
A. E. Waite – The Holy Kabbalah
E. B. White and James Thurber – Is Sex Necessary?
Alfred North Whitehead – Process and Reality
Virginia Woolf – A Room of One's Own
January 9
Brian Friel, Irish dramatist (died 2015)
Heiner Müller, German dramatist (died 1995)
January 26 – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
February 6 – Keith Waterhouse, English journalist and novelist (died 2009)
February 16 – Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet and educator (died 2010)
February 17 – Chaim Potok, American author (died 2002)
February 18 – Len Deighton, English novelist
March 7 – Dan Jacobson, South African novelist (died 2014)
April 1 – Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist
May 14 – George Selden, American author (died 1989)
May 16 – Adrienne Rich, American poet and essayist
June 2 – Norton Juster, American children's writer and academic
June 11 – George Garrett, American poet and novelist (died 2008)
June 12
Brigid Brophy, English novelist and critic (died 1995)
Anne Frank (Annelies Marie Frank), German-born Dutch child diarist (died 1945)
June 20 – Anne Weale, English writer (died 2007)
June 25 – Eric Carle, American children's writer and illustrator
July 22 – U. A. Fanthorpe, English poet (died 2009)
July 31 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist
August 14 – Thomas Meehan, American screenwriter
August 18 – Anatoly Kuznetsov, Russian dissident novelist (died 1979)
August 21 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet and translator
August 27 – Ira Levin, American novelist and playwright (died 2007)
August 29 – Thom Gunn, Anglo-American poet (died 2004)
October 7 – Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (died 1993)
October 21 – Ursula K. Le Guin, American science fiction and fantasy author
October 23 – Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet (died 2006)
November 7 – Steve Carter, American playwright
November 13 – Theo Aronson, South African-born British biographer (died 2003)
December 12 – John Osborne, English playwright and screenwriter (died 1994)
December 16 – James Moore, English author
December 19 – Howard Sackler, American dramatist and screenwriter (died 1982)
December 23 – Monique Watteau (Monique Dubois), Belgian fantasy novelist and artist
January 15 – Leonard Cline, American novelist, poet and journalist (heart failure, born 1893)
January 29 – Hans Prutz, German historian (born 1843)
March 26 – Katharine Lee Bates, American lyricist (born 1859)
March 31 – Santeri Nuorteva, Soviet journalist and politician (born 1881)
April 12 – Flora Annie Steel, English writer (born 1847)
April 16 – Sir John Morris-Jones, Welsh grammarian and poet (born 1864)
April 21 – Lucy Clifford (Mrs. W. K. Clifford), English novelist (born 1846)
May 19 – Mary E. Mann, English novelist and short story writer (born 1848)
June 8 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (born 1861)
June 18 – Vedam Venkataraya Sastry, Sanskrit and Telugu poet, critic and dramatist (born 1853)
June 22 – Alfred Brunswig, German philosopher (born 1877)
June 25 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist and novelist (born 1858)
June 28 – Edward Carpenter, English poet (born 1844)
July 15 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian novelist and poet (born 1874)
July 31 – José de Castro, Portuguese journalist (born 1868)
August – Mary MacLane, Canadian feminist writer (born 1881)
September 12 – Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (born 1865)
September 19 – Francis Darwin, English botanist and academic (born 1848)
October 8 – Max Lehmann, German historian (born 1845)
October 19 – Alexandru Davila, Romanian dramatist and diplomat (born 1862)
December 10 – Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (suicide, born 1898)
Unknown dates
Grace Rhys, Irish novelist and poet (born 1865)
Dallas Lore Sharp, American nature writer (born 1870)
Evelyn Whitaker, English children's writer (born 1844)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord David Cecil, The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
Newdigate prize: Phyllis Hartnoll
Nobel Prize in literature: Thomas Mann
O. Henry Award: Dorothy Parker, Big Blonde (short story)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Elmer L. Rice, Street Scene
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary
1929 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
