1929 in literature
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See also: 1928 in literature, other events of 1929, 1930 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Candide by Voltaire was declared obscene by the United States Customs and seized in 1930.
- A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes is published.
- A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway is published.
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner is published.
New books
- Bambi - Felix Salten
- Banjo - Claude McKay
- The Blacker the Berry - Wallace Thurman
- Brown on Resolution - C.S. Forester
- Borgia - Zona Gale
- A Charmed Circle - Anna Kavan
- The Dark Journey - Julian Green
- Dodsworth - Sinclair Lewis
- Everlasting Man - G. K. Chesterton
- A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- Flowering Judas - Katherine Anne Porter
- Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
- A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
- Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) - Erich Maria Remarque
- In the Wilderness - Sigrid Undset
- The Innocent Voyage - Richard Hughes
- Kiki's Memoirs - Kiki
- Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
- Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
- The Magnificent Obsession - Lloyd C. Douglas
- The Mind Reader - Walter A. Roberts
- The Near and the Far - Leopold Myers
- Passing - Nella Larsen
- Peder Victorious - O.E. Rolvaag
- Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral - Jessie Redmon Fauset
- The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley
- A Preface to Morals - Walter Lippmann
- The Roman Hat Mystery - Ellery Queen
- The Romantic Adventures of Rosy, The Octoroon; With Some Account of the Persecution of the Southern Negro During the Reconstruction Period - Albert Evander Coleman
- A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
- Rope (novel) - Patrick Hamilton
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- The Trumpeter of Krakow - Eric P. Kelly
Births
- January 26 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer
- February 17 - Chaim Potok, author (+ 2002)
- February 18 - Len Deighton, novelist
- April 1 - Milan Kundera, novelist
- August 29 - Thom Gunn, poet
Deaths
- March 26 - Katharine Lee Bates, lyricist of America the Beautiful
- April 16 - Sir John Morris-Jones, Welsh grammarian and poet
- April 21 - Lucy Clifford, novelist
- June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet
- June 25 – Georges Courteline, dramatist and novelist
- July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, novelist and poet
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
- Nobel Prize in literature: Thomas Mann
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Elmer L. Rice, Street Scene
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet: John Brown's Body
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Julia Peterkin - Scarlet Sister Mary