1919 in literature
See also: 1918 in literature, other events of 1919, 1920 in literature, list of years in literature.
EventsWinesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is published.
New booksThe American Language - H. L. MenckenCaesar or Nothing - Pio BarojaDemian - Hermann HesseFields of Victory - Mary Augusta Ward The Forerunners - Romain Rolland Helena - Mary Augusta Ward The House of the Winds (poetry) - Edwin James BradyIn the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka Java Head - Joseph HergesheimerJurgen - James Branch CabellThe Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset MaughamNight and Day - Virginia WoolfWho Was Responsible - Maggie Fullilove Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood AndersonThe Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes
Births January 1 - J. D. Salinger, novelist January 25 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer May 17 - Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian October 22 - Doris Lessing, British writer
Deaths May 6 - L. Frank Baum
Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler 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
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