Calendar of Literary Facts
1927
- Wyndham Lewis publishes Time and Western Man
- Georges LeMaitre posits a theory of the origin of the universe which is later called the “Big Bang” theory
- Chiang Kai-shek arranges for the liquidation of his communist adversaries in China
- Germany’s economy collapses, bringing on a period of economic depression
- Aviator Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic, from New York to Paris, becoming the first person to cross the ocean alone by airplane
- Thornton Wilder publishes The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Carl Sandburg publishes Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
- Louis Bromfield receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Early Autumn
- Mourning Dove publishes Cogewea the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range
- James Weldon Johnson publishes God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
- Edwin Arlington Robinson publishes Tristram
- Paul Green receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for In Abraham’s Bosom
- Leonora Speyer receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Fiddler’s Farewell
- Halldór Laxness publishes Vefarinn mikli fra Kasmir
- Frederick Philip Grove publishes A Search for America
- Sinclair Lewis publishes Elmer Gantry
- Julian Green publishes Le Voyageur sur la terre (The Pilgrim on the Earth)
- Virginia Woolf publishes To the Lighthouse
- A. A. Milne publishes Now We Are Six
- Willa Cather publishes Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Countee Cullen publishes Copper Sun
- Grazia Deledda receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Henri Bergson receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Patricia Matthews is born (July 1)
- Galway Kinnell is born (February 1)
- Neil Simon is born (July 4)
- William C. Knott is born (August 7)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is born (May 7)
- George Lamming is born (June 8)
- Charles Tomlinson is born (January 8)
- Daniel Keyes is born (August 9)
- Judith Krantz is born (January 9)
- James Wright is born (December 13)
- Günter Grass is born (October 16)
- Jacqueline Briskin is born (December 18)
- Erma Bombeck is born (February 21)
- Peter Matthiessen is born (May 22)
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa dies (July 24)
- Robert Ludlum is born (May 25)
- Robert Kroetsch is born (June 26)
- John Ashbery is born (July 28)
- Edward Abbey is born (January 29)
- W. S. Merwin is born (September 30)
