See also: 1925 in literature, other events of 1926, 1927 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Bread Loaf Writers' Conference founded in Middlebury, Vermont.
• Ford Madox Ford publishes A Man Could Stand Up. It is the third book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
• October 14 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is published for the first time.

New books

• Autobiographies - W. B. Yeats
• The Castle - Franz Kafka
• Early Autumn - Louis Bromfield
• Flight - Walter F. White
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Haunting Hand - Walter A. Roberts
• A Man Could Stand Up - Ford Madox Ford
• Payment Deferred - C.S. Forester
• Petenera's Daughter - Henry Bellamann
• Preface to Life - Zona Gale
• Ralph 124C 41+ - Hugo Gernsback
• The Romantic Comedians - Ellen Glasgow
• Shen of the Sea - Arthur Bowie Chrisman
• These Old Shades – Georgette Heyer
• The Spell of the Turf - James R. Crowell & Samuel C. Hildreth
• The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
• The Three Students - Haldane MacFall
• The Ugly Duchess - Lion Feuchtwanger
• Ulich and Soracha - George A. Moore
• Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
• The World of William Clissold - H. G. Wells

New drama

• St. John Greer Ervine - Anthony and Anna
• Sean O'Casey - The Plough and the Stars

Non-fiction

• Angela Brazil - My Own Schooldays
• R. H. Tawney - Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Births

• January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist
• February 15 - Dieter Lattmann, writer and politician
• February 20 - Richard Matheson, author
• March 31 - John Fowles, writer
• April 28 - Harper Lee, US novelist
• June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, US poet (+ 1997)
• July 11 - Frederick Buechner, author
• August 14 - "Goscinny" (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix
• November 20 - John Gardner, British novelist

Deaths

• January 14 – René Boylesve, French author
• August 1 - Israel Zangwill, English poet

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Radclyffe Hall, Adam's Breed
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Grazia Deledda
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George Kelly, Craig's Wife
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith

1926 books

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