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.
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
- 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
Short story
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
- date unknown - Charlotte Jay, suspense writer
- date unknown - Frank Kermode, literary critic
Deaths
- May 6 - L. Frank Baum
- 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
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