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The year 1919 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Short story
7 Births
8 Deaths
9 Awards

Events

Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain return to Somerville College, Oxford, to complete their education following war service.
Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists.
Vladimir Nabokov leaves Russia with his family.

New books

Sherwood Anderson — Winesburg, Ohio
Pio Baroja — Caesar or Nothing
L. Frank Baum — The Magic of Oz
Edgar Rice Burroughs — Jungle Tales of Tarzan
James Branch Cabell — Jurgen
Ronald Firbank — Valmouth
Maggie Fullilove — Who Was Responsible?
Joseph Hergesheimer
- Linda Condon
- Java Head
Hermann Hesse — Demian
Jerome K. Jerome — All Roads Lead to Calvary
W. Somerset Maugham — The Moon and Sixpence
Baroness Orczy
- His Majesty's Well-beloved
- The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Marcel Proust — Pastiches et mélanges
Romain Rolland — The Forerunners
Mary Augusta Ward
- Fields of Victory
- Helena
Virginia Woolf — Night and Day

New drama

Susan Glaspell - Bernice
Harley Granville-Barker - The Secret Life
A. A. Milne - The Camberley Triangle
Liviu Rebreanu - The Quadrille
Ernst Toller - Transformation

Poetry

Main article: 1919 in poetry

Edwin James Brady - The House of the Winds

Non-fiction

Henri Bergson - Spiritual Energy: Essays and Lectures (L'Energie spirituelle: essais et conférences)
John Maynard Keynes - The Economic Consequences of the Peace
H. L. Mencken - The American Language

Short story

"In the Penal Colony" - Franz Kafka
Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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
November 26 - Frederik Pohl, science fiction author
November 29 - Frank Kermode, literary critic
date unknown
- Helen Forrester, memoirist and novelist
- Charlotte Jay, suspense writer

Deaths

May 6 - L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author
June 14 - Weedon Grossmith, co-author of Diary of a Nobody
July 8 - John Fox, Jr., American journalist, novelist, and short story writer
October 22 - W. N. P. Barbellion, author of the Journal of a Disappointed Man

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Hugh Walpole, The Secret City
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Henry Festing Jones, Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835–1902) - A Memoir
Nobel Prize for Literature: Carl Spitteler
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography: Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
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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