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Overview of the events of 1919 in literature
Overview of the events of 1919 in literature
Events from the year 1919 in literature .
Events
February –
Richmal Crompton 's anarchic English schoolboy William Brown is introduced in the first published
Just William story, "Rice-Mould", in Home magazine.
March 1 –
October 15 – Publication runs of the American
pulp magazine
The Thrill Book are oriented towards the
fantasy genre or
science fiction . It includes the serialization of
The Heads of Cerberus , written by
Gertrude Barrows Bennett as Francis Stevens, with its early thematic use of an alternate time-track, or parallel worlds.
March – The diaries up to the end of
1917 from the English naturalist
W. N. P. Barbellion (Bruce Frederick Cummings) are published as
The Journal of a Disappointed Man in London by
Chatto & Windus . This treats his resignation to the disease
multiple sclerosis , of which he will die on
October 22 , aged 30, at
Gerrards Cross .
[1]
March 28 – Two paintings by
E. E. Cummings appear in an exhibition of the New York Society of Independent Artists.
April 2 –
Vladimir Nabokov leaves Russia with his family.
April 7 – The anarchist writers
Gustav Landauer and
Erich Mühsam play leading roles in creating the
Bavarian Soviet Republic . They are later joined by the essayist and
debt relief advocate
Silvio Gesell . Taken over by the
Communist Party of Germany , the republic is eventually crushed by the
Freikorps ; Landauer is killed in prison (
May 2 ).
[2] Combatants on the Freikorps side include
Ernst Kantorowicz , later famous as a historian.
[3]
April and October – The English writers
Vera Brittain and
Winifred Holtby return after war service to complete their degree courses at
Somerville College, Oxford .
[4]
June – The
Algonquin Round Table of writers, critics, actors and wits led by
Alexander Woollcott first meets at the
Algonquin Hotel in New York City.
July 29 –
Alfred Harcourt and
Donald Brace set up the publishing company
Harcourt, Brace & Howe in New York City.
[5]
October 28 –
Arthur Ransome leaves Russia with his future wife Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina, previously
Trotsky 's secretary, carrying a diplomatic message for Estonia.
November – The literary monthly
The London Mercury is launched with
J. C. Squire as editor.
November 19 – An American
expatriate ,
Sylvia Beach , opens the
Shakespeare and Company bookstore in
Paris .
November 29 – The
Großes Schauspielhaus opens as a theater in
Berlin , with an interior designed by
Hans Poelzig . It begins with the director
Max Reinhardt 's production of the
Oresteia .
[6]
December –
T. E. Lawrence loses most of the manuscript of
Seven Pillars of Wisdom while changing trains at
Reading in England en route from the
Paris Peace Conference to Oxford.
[7]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 –
J. D. Salinger , American novelist (died
2010 )
[12]
January 7 –
Robert Duncan , American poet (died
1988 )
[13]
January 10 –
Ugo Sansonetti , Italian writer and
masters athlete (died
2019 )
January 20 –
Silva Kaputikyan , Armenian poet (died
2006 )
January 24 –
Juan Eduardo Zúñiga , Spanish fiction writer, literary scholar and translator (died
2020 )
[14]
January 25 –
Edwin Newman , American writer and journalist (died
2010 )
January 29 –
N. F. Simpson , English absurdist playwright (died
2011 )
February 14 –
Miroslav Zikmund , Czech adventurer, travel writer and film director (died
2021 )
[15]
March 18 –
G. E. M. Anscombe , Irish-born English
analytic philosopher (died
2001 )
March 24
April 15 –
Emyr Humphreys , Welsh novelist and poet (died
2020 )
[17]
April 24 –
Mihu Dragomir , Romanian poet, journalist and short story writer (died
1964 )
May 7 –
Robert H. Adleman , American novelist and historian (died
1995 )
[18]
May 16 –
John Robinson , English Bible scholar, religious writer and bishop (died
1983 )
May 17 –
Merle Miller , American biographer and screenwriter (died
1986 )
[19]
June 6 –
Helen Forrester (June Bhatia), English memoirist and novelist (died
2011 )
June 8 –
Władysław Siemaszko , Polish publicist, lawyer and writer
[20]
June 27 –
Jaswant Singh Kanwal , Punjabi novelist (died
2020 )
June 28 –
Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu , Romanian philosopher, novelist and dramatist (died
1989 )
July 15 –
Iris Murdoch , Irish-born novelist (died
1999 )
[21]
July 23
July 31 –
Primo Levi , Italian novelist and memoirist (died
1987 )
[22]
August 1 –
Stanley Middleton , English novelist (died
2009 )
August 4 –
Michel Déon , French writer (died
2016 )
[23]
August 31 –
Amrita Pritam , Punjabi poet and novelist (died
2005 )
September 13
September 23 –
Tōta Kaneko , Japanese writer (died
2018 )
[25]
September 26 –
Matilde Camus , Spanish poet (died
2012 )
October 22 –
Doris Lessing , Persian-born English novelist (died
2013 )
[26]
November 18 –
Jocelyn Brando , American actress and writer (died
2005 )
[27]
November 23 –
P. F. Strawson , English philosopher (died
2006 )
November 26 –
Frederik Pohl , American science fiction author (died
2013 )
[28]
November 29 –
Frank Kermode , Manx-born literary critic (died
2010 )
[29]
December 6 –
Paul de Man , Belgian-born literary critic (died
1983 )
[30]
December 17
Deaths
January 2 –
Eliza Putnam Heaton , American journalist and editor (born
1860 )
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 24 –
Mary Ann Maitland , Scottish-born Canadian author (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 6 –
Ada Langworthy Collier , American author (born
1843 )
August 10 –
Cynthia Morgan St. John , American Wordsworthian, book collector, and author (pneumonia, born
1852 )
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 )
November 20 –
Jane Lippitt Patterson , American writer and editor (born
1829 )
December 19 –
Alice Moore McComas , American author, editor, lecturer and reformer (born
1850 )
Awards
In literature
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