1919 in literature

1919 in literature

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

Events

*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

*A. A. Milne - "The Camberley Triangle"
*Liviu Rebreanu - "Cadrilul ("The Quadrille")"

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"

hort story

*"In the Penal Colony" - Franz Kafka

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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