Calendar of Literary Facts
1919
- Frederick Schiller Faust’s The Untamed is published
- Will Rogers publishes The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference
- H. L. Mencken publishes Prejudices: First Series and the first edition of his study The American Language
- Sherwood Anderson publishes Winesburg, Ohio
- Henry Adams is posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for autobiography for The Education of Henry Adams
- Carl Spitteler receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Booth Tarkington receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Magnificent Ambersons
- James Branch Cabell publishes Jurgen
- Mohandas K. Gandhi becomes leader of the Indian National Congress
- The Jazz Age flourishes in the United States
- Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Jungle Tales of Tarzan
- J. D. Salinger is born (January 1)
- Charles Willeford is born (January 2)
- René Marqués is born (October 4)
- Paul de Man is born (December 6)
- L. Frank Baum dies (May 6)
- Robert Duncan is born (January 7)
- Louise Bennett is born (September 7)
- Belva Plain is born (October 9)
- William Meredith is born (January 9)
- Karl Adolph Gjellerup dies (October 11)
- Leonid (Nikolaevich) Andreyev dies (September 12)
- Shirley Jackson is born (December 14)
- Iris Murdoch is born (July 15)
- Ezekiel Mphahlele is born (December 17)
- Peter (Henry) Abrahams is born (March 19)
- Sabine R. Ulibarri is born (September 21)
- Doris Lessing is born (October 22)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti is born (March 24)
- May Swenson is born (May 28)