1919 in literature

See also: 1918 in literature, other events of 1919, 1920 in literature, list of years in literature.

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

• "In the Penal Colony" – Franz Kafka

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

• 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