1919 in literature

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

Events[edit]

April 2 - Vladimir Nabokov leaves Russia with his family.
November 17 - American expatriate Sylvia Beach opens the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.
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.

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
H. G. Wells - The Outline of History (publication of first installment on Nov. 22, 1919)

January 1 - J. D. Salinger, novelist (died 2010)
January 7 - Robert Duncan, poet (died 1988)
January 25 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer (died 2010)
March 24 - Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers (died 2005)
May 17 - Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian (died 1995)
June 6 - Helen Forrester, memoirist and novelist (died 2011)
June 28 - Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu, Romanian philosopher, novelist, essayist and dramatist (died 1989)
July 15 - Iris Murdoch, novelist (died 1999)
July 23 - Davis Grubb, novelist and short story writer (died 1980)
July 31 - Primo Levi, Italian novelist and memoirist (died 1987)
September 26 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (died 2012)
October 22 - Doris Lessing, British novelist
November 23 - P. F. Strawson, philosopher (died 2006)
November 26 - Frederik Pohl, science fiction author
November 29 - Frank Kermode, literary critic (died 2010)
December 17 - Charlotte Jay, Australian suspense writer (died 1996)

January 11 - Kazimierz Zalewski, Polish dramatist, critic and newspaper publisher, 69
January 31 - Paul Lindau, German dramatist, 79
May 6 - L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author, 62 (stroke)
May 10 - Ferdinando Fontana, Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet, 69
May 17 - Guido von List, Viennese) poet, dramatist, journalist and occultist writer, 70
June 14 - Weedon Grossmith, writer, painter, actor and playwright, co-author of Diary of a Nobody, 65
June 23 - Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao, Indian dramatist, 65
July 8 - John Fox, Jr., American journalist, novelist, and short story writer, 56 (pneumonia)
September 12 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, 48 (heart failure)
October 22 - W. N. P. Barbellion, author of the Journal of a Disappointed Man, 30 (multiple sclerosis)^[2]
October 30 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 68
November 3 - Abraham Valdelomar, Peruvian poet, journalist, essayist and dramatist, 31 (injuries from accidental fall)

^ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919, New York: George H. Doran. Page 225