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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Events
- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
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
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
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "1919_in_literature" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_in_literature, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
