See also: 1924 in literature, other events of 1925, 1926 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• April: F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar on rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France shortly after the publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and shortly before Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is to be published.
• The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is published.
• Ford Madox Ford publishes No More Parades . It is the second book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser is published.
• The Modern Library is taken over by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer .

New books

• An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
• Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
• The Axe - Sigrid Undset
• Barren Ground - Ellen Glasgow
• Carry On, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
• The Counterfeiters - André Gide
• Dark Laughter - Sherwood Anderson
• Demian - Hermann Hesse
• Drums - James Boyd
• The Emigrants - Johan Bojer
• The Game of Love and Death - Romain Rolland
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos
• The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
• Hangman's House - Donn Byrne
• In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
• In the American Grain - William Carlos Williams
• The Informer - Liam O'Flaherty
• L'Ange qui pleure - André Billy
• Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
• Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
• No More Parades - Ford Maddox Ford
• The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
• Pastors and Masters - Ivy Compton-Burnett
• Paul Bunyan - James Stevens
• The Phantom Public - Walter Lippmann
• Politicians and the Press - Max Aitken
• Possession - Louis Bromfield
• Power - Lion Feuchtwanger
• The Prince of Washington Square - Harry F. Liscomb
• The Professor's House - Willa Cather
• The Sailor's Return - David Garnett
• Sorrell and Son - Warwick Deeping
• Stone Desert - Hugo Wast
• Sutter's Gold - Blaise Cendrars
• Tales from Silver Lands - Charles Finger
• The Trial - Franz Kafka
• The Venetian Glass Nephew - Elinor Wylie
• The White Guard - Mihail Bulgakov

Births

• January 8 - James Saunders , dramatist
• January 11 - William Styron, writer
• January 14 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author and rightist political activist
• February 25 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (+ 2000)
• March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, (+ 1964)
• September 4 - Forrest Carter, author

Deaths

• George Washington Cable - American writer
• May 12 - Amy Lowell, poet
• July 15 – Mary Cholmondeley, English writer
• December 27 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Charles Finger , Tales from Silver Lands
• Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edna Ferber, So Big