1919 in literature

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
• 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