1919 in literature
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See also: 1918 in literature, other events of 1919, 1920 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists.
- Vladimir Nabokov leaves Russia with his family.
[edit] New books
- Sherwood Anderson — Winesburg, Ohio
- Pio Baroja — Caesar or Nothing
- L. Frank Baum — The Magic of Oz
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — Jungle Tales of Tarzan
- James Branch Cabell — Jurgen
- Maggie Fullilove — Who Was Responsible?
- Joseph Hergesheimer
- Linda Condon
- Java Head
- Hermann Hesse — Demian
- Jerome K. Jerome — All Roads Lead to Calvary
- W. Somerset Maugham — The Moon and Sixpence
- Marcel Proust — Pastiches et mélanges
- Romain Rolland — The Forerunners
- Mary Augusta Ward
- Fields of Victory
- Helena
- Virginia Woolf — Night and Day
[edit] New drama
- A. A. Milne - The Camberley Triangle
- Liviu Rebreanu - Cadrilul ("The Quadrille")
[edit] Poetry
- Edwin James Brady - The House of the Winds
[edit] Non-fiction
- Henri Bergson - Spiritual Energy: Essays and Lectures (L'Energie spirituelle: essais et conférences)
- John Maynard Keynes - The Economic Consequences of the Peace
- H. L. Mencken - The American Language
[edit] Short story
[edit] Births
- January 1 - J. D. Salinger, novelist
- January 7 - Robert Duncan, poet
- January 25 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer
- March 24 - Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers
- May 17 - Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian
- June 5 - Richard Scarry, children's author and illustrator
- July 15 - Iris Murdoch, novelist
- July 23 - Davis Grubb, novelist and short story writer
- July 31 - Primo Levi, memoirist
- October 22 - Doris Lessing, British novelist
- November 23 - P. F. Strawson, philosopher
- November 26 - Frederik Pohl, science fiction author
- date unknown
- Helen Forrester, memoirist and novelist
- Charlotte Jay, suspense writer
- Frank Kermode, literary critic
[edit] Deaths
- May 6 - L. Frank Baum, Wizard of Oz author
- July 8 - John Fox, Jr., American journalist, novelist, and short story writer
- October 22 - W. N. P. Barbellion, author of the "Journal of a Disappointed Man
- date unknown - Weedon Grossmith, co-author of Diary of a Nobody
[edit] Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography: Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Margaret Widdemer, Old Road to Paradise and Carl Sandburg, Corn Huskers
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Hugh Walpole, The Secret City
