This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1919.
Children and young people
L. Frank Baum – The Magic of Oz
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Christine Chaundler – Ronald's Burglar
Grace May North – Adele Doring of the Sunnyside Club (first in the Adele Doring series)
Hugh Walpole – Jeremy
Ramón del Valle-Inclán – Divine Words (Divinas palabras)
Edward Salisbury Field – Wedding Bells
Susan Glaspell – Bernice
Harley Granville-Barker – The Secret Life
Ian Hay – Tilly of Bloomsbury
Karl Kraus – The Last Days of Mankind (Die letzten Tage der Menschheit)
Kwee Tek Hoay – Allah jang Palsoe (The False God)
Avery Hopwood - The Gold Diggers
Else Lasker-Schüler – Die Wupper (first performed, written 1908)
A. A. Milne
The Camberley Triangle
Mr. Pim Passes By
Liviu Rebreanu – The Quadrille
Ernst Toller – Transformation
E. J. Brady – The House of the Winds
Siegfried Sassoon – The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
August Stramm (posthumous) – Tropfblut
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Allegria di naufragi (The Joy of Shipwrecks)
La guerra (The War)
Louis Untermeyer (ed.) – Modern American Poetry
Henri Bergson – L'Energie spirituelle: essais et conférences (Spiritual Energy: Essays and Lectures)
Francis P. Duffy with Joyce Kilmer – Father Duffy's Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism, Of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth
William Inge – Outspoken Essays (first series)
Johan Huizinga – Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (The Waning of the Middle Ages)
John Maynard Keynes – The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Karl Kraus – Weltgericht (Last Judgment)
H. L. Mencken – The American Language
Arthur Ransome – Six Weeks in Russia 1919
Carl Sandburg – The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919
Prof. William Strunk, Jr. – The Elements of Style
H. G. Wells – The Outline of History (publication of first installment, November 22)
Arthur Graeme West (posthumous) – The Diary of a Dead Officer
Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley, Gardens, their Form and Design
January 1 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist (died 2010)
January 7 – Robert Duncan, American poet (died 1988)
January 20 – Silva Kaputikyan, Armenian poet (died 2006)
January 25 – Edwin Newman, American writer and journalist (died 2010)
March 24 – Robert Heilbroner, American economic philosopher (died 2005)
May 16 – John Robinson, English Bible scholar, religious writer and bishop (died 1983)
May 17 – Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian (died 1995)
June 6 – Helen Forrester (June Bhatia), English memoirist and novelist (died 2011)
June 28 – Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu, Romanian philosopher, novelist and dramatist (died 1989)
July 15 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born novelist (died 1999)
July 23
Davis Grubb, American novelist and short story writer (died 1980)
Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Argentine comic book writer (forced disappearance c.1977)
July 31 – Primo Levi, Italian novelist and memoirist (died 1987)
August 1 – Stanley Middleton, English novelist (died 2009)
September 13 – George Weidenfeld, Viennese-born English publisher (died 2016)
September 26 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (died 2012)
October 22 – Doris Lessing, Persian-born English novelist (died 2013)
November 23 – P. F. Strawson, English philosopher (died 2006)
November 26 – Frederik Pohl, American science fiction author (died 2013)
November 29 – Frank Kermode, Manx-born literary critic (died 2010)
December 17
Charlotte Jay, Australian suspense writer (died 1996)
Es'kia Mphahlele, South African writer (died 2008)
January 4 – Matilda Betham-Edwards, English novelist, poet and travel writer (born 1836)
January 11 – Kazimierz Zalewski, Polish dramatist, critic and publisher (born 1849)
January 15 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-born German revolutionary socialist (assassinated, born 1871)
January 31 – Paul Lindau, German dramatist (born 1839)
February 26 – Anne Thackeray Ritchie, English novelist and essayist (born 1837)
May 2 – Gustav Landauer, German philosopher and revolutionary (murdered, born 1870)
May 6 – L. Frank Baum, children's writer (stroke, born 1856)
May 10 – Ferdinando Fontana, Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet (born 1850)
May 17 – Guido von List, Viennese poet, dramatist, and occultist (born 1848)
May 30 – Barbu Nemțeanu, Romanian poet and translator (tuberculosis, born 1887)
June 14 – Weedon Grossmith, English writer, actor and playwright (born 1854)
June 19 – Petre P. Carp, Romanian politician, polemicist, and translator (born 1837)
June 23 – Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao, Indian dramatist (born 1854)
July 8 – John Fox, Jr., American novelist and short story writer (pneumonia, born 1862)
August 11 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish American industrialist and writer (pneumonia, born 1835)
September 12 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian dramatist, novelist and short-story writer (heart failure, born 1871)
October 22 – W. N. P. Barbellion (Bruce Frederick Cummings), English naturalist and diarist (multiple sclerosis, born 1889)
October 30 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (born 1850)
November 3 – Abraham Valdelomar, Peruvian poet, essayist and dramatist (accidental fall, born 1888)
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
John Dos Passos – 1919 (1932)
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