1919 In Literature

Events

• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is published.

New books

• The American Language - H. L. Mencken
• Caesar or Nothing - Pio Baroja
• Demian - Hermann Hesse
• Fields of Victory - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Forerunners - Romain Rolland
• Helena - Mary Augusta Ward
• The House of the Winds (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka
• Java Head - Joseph Hergesheimer
• Jurgen - James Branch Cabell
• The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
• Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
• Who Was Responsible? - Maggie Fullilove
• Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
• The 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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