1926 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1926.

Events[]

  • February 8 – Seán O'Casey's play The Plough and the Stars opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. At the February 11 performance there is a near-riot: one audience member strikes an actress.[1]
  • February 12 – The Irish Free State Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints a Committee on Evil Literature.
  • February 26 – The future English novelist Graham Greene is received into the Catholic Church.
  • April 1 – Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories in the United States.
  • May 11 – C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien first meet in Oxford.[2]
  • October 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The White Guard (Белая гвардия), partly serialized in Rossiya before the magazine's suppression earlier in the year, opens as a dramatic adaptation, The Days of the Turbins, at the Moscow Art Theatre. It is enjoyed by Stalin.
  • October 14 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne first appears, published by Methuen in London.
  • December 3 – The English detective story writer Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey. On December 14 she is found at a Harrogate hotel by the journalist Ritchie Calder, staying under her husband's mistress's surname.
  • December – Thomas Mann begins writing Die Geschichten Jaakobs in Munich, first of the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder), on which he will work until January 1943.
  • unknown dates
    • Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac establish the Théatre Alfred-Jarry in Paris to produce surrealist drama.
    • The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is founded in Middlebury, Vermont.
    • Vsevolod Meyerhold stages an expressionistic production of Gogol's satirical comedy The Government Inspector (Ревизор, 1836) in Moscow.[3]
    • Margaret Mitchell begins the novel Gone with the Wind, which will appear 1936.
    • The remains of the English poet Isaac Rosenberg (killed in battle in 1918) are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
    • Peter Llewelyn Davies establishes the London publishing house Peter Davies Ltd.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1926 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

  • Germán List Arzubide – El movimiento estridentista
  • Angela Brazil – My Own Schooldays
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – The History of Spiritualism
  • H. Rider Haggard – The Days of My Life
  • T. E. Lawrence – Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • Otto Schmidt (chief editor) – Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Большая советская энциклопедия, Bolshaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya; begins publication)
  • R. H. Tawney – Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
  • Helen Thomas – As It Was
  • W. B. Yeats – Autobiographies
  • Paul Zarifopol – Din registrul ideilor gingașe (A Register of Tender Ideas)
  • Alfred Eckhard Zimmern – The Third British Empire

Births[]

  • January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (died 2009)
  • January 12 – Shumon Miura, Japanese novelist (died 2017)
  • January 13 – Michael Bond, English fiction writer and creator of Paddington Bear (died 2017)[4]
  • January 14 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (died 1991)
  • January 27 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (died 2003)[5]
  • February 3 – Richard Yates, American novelist (died 1992)
  • February 8 – Neal Cassady, American writer and poet (died 1968)
  • February 20 – Richard Matheson, American science fiction writer (died 2013)
  • March 3 – James Merrill, American poet (died 1995)
  • March 7 – Chemmanam Chacko, Indian poet (died 2018)
  • March 24 – Dario Fo, Italian dramatist and actor (died 2016)[6]
  • March 27 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (died 1966)
  • March 31 – John Fowles, English novelist (died 2005)[7]
  • April 3 – Luís de Sttau Monteiro, Portuguese novelist and dramatist (died 1993)
  • April 12 – Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, Chechen ethnographer (died 2018)
  • April 13 – Egon Wolff, Chilean dramatist (died 2016)
  • April 23
    • J. P. Donleavy, Irish American novelist (died 2017)
    • Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist and children's writer (died 2003)
  • April 28 – Harper Lee, American novelist (died 2016)[8]
  • April 30 – Edmund Cooper, British poet and author (died 1982)[9]
  • May 15 – English twins
    • Anthony Shaffer, dramatist and screenwriter (died 2001)
    • Peter Shaffer, dramatist (died 2016)
  • May 21 – Robert Creeley, American author (died 2005)
  • June 3 – Allen Ginsberg, American Beat Generation poet (died 1997)[10]
  • June 4 – Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright and critic (died 2020)
  • June 13
    • Kanam EJ, Malayalam novelist and lyricist (died 1982)
    • Dalmiro Sáenz, Argentinian writer (died 2016)
  • June 19 – Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Italian publisher (died 1972)
  • July 7 – Spencer Holst, American writer and storyteller (died 2001)
  • July 11 – Frederick Buechner, American author and minister
  • July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings, English poet (died 2001)
  • August 6 – Elisabeth Beresford, English children's author (died 2010)[11]
  • August 12 – Wallace Markfield, American comic novelist (died 2002)
  • August 13 – Roy Heath, Guyanese novelist (died 2008)[12]
  • August 14
    • Alice Adams, American short story writer (died 1999)
    • René Goscinny, French writer and co-creator of Astérix (died 1977)
  • September 3 – Alison Lurie, American novelist and academic (died 2020)
  • September 6 – Clancy Sigal, American writer (died 2017)
  • September 14 – Michel Butor, French writer (died 2016)
  • September 16 – John Knowles, American novelist (died 2001)[13]
  • October 2 – Jan Morris, born James Morris, Anglo-Welsh historian and travel writer (died 2020)
  • October 15 – Evan Hunter, American author and screenwriter (died 2005)
  • November 5 – John Berger, English art critic and novelist (died 2017)[14]
  • November 11
  • November 19 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (died 2011)
  • November 20 – John Gardner, English thriller writer (died 2007)
  • November 25 – Poul Anderson, American science fiction writer (died 2001)
  • December 23 – Robert Bly, American writer (died 2021)

Deaths[]

Awards[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien". Planet Tolkien. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
  3. ^ Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1996). Government Inspector. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-7734-8840-3.
  4. ^ "Michael Bond obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  5. ^ "Fritz Spiegl". The Daily Telegraph. 25 March 2003. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  6. ^ Mitchell, Tony (1989). File on Fo. London Portsmouth, N.H., U.S.A: Methuen Drama HEB Inc. p. 7. ISBN 9780413174307.
  7. ^ Higgins, Charlotte. "Reclusive novelist John Fowles dies at 79". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  8. ^ "Harper Lee obituary". The Guardian. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  9. ^ Smith, Curtis (1986). Twentieth-century science-fiction writers. Chicago: St. James Press. p. 153. ISBN 9780912289274.
  10. ^ Hampton, Wilborn (April 6, 1997). "Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 11, 2008. Retrieved April 14, 2008.
  11. ^ "Elisabeth Beresford: Children's author who created the Wombles". The Independent. 3 January 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  12. ^ Louis James, "Heath, Roy Aubrey Kelvin (1926–2008)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  13. ^ Honan, William H. (2001-12-01). "John Knowles, 75, Novelist Who Wrote 'A Separate Peace'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  14. ^ "John Berger obituary". The Guardian. 2 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  15. ^ Bohman, Nils; Dahl, Torsten (1955). Svenska män och Kvinnor: Biografisk Uppslagsbok (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. p. 394. OCLC 1137575928.
  16. ^ Rainer Maria Rilke (14 April 2011). Selected Poems: with parallel German text. OUP Oxford. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-19-162017-1.


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