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

EVENTS

Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists.

Vladimir Nabokov leaves Russia with his family.

NEW BOOKS

Sherwood Anderson — '' Winesburg, Ohio ''

Pio Baroja — '' Caesar Or Nothing ''

L. Frank Baum — '' The Magic Of Oz ''

Edgar Rice Burroughs — '' Jungle Tales Of Tarzan ''

James Branch Cabell — '' Jurgen ''

Ronald Firbank — '' Valmouth ''

Maggie Fullilove — '' Who Was Responsible? ''

Joseph Hergesheimer

---'' Linda Condon ''

---'' Java Head ''

Hermann Hesse — '' Demian ''

Jerome K. Jerome — ''All Roads Lead to Calvary''

W. Somerset Maugham — '' The Moon And Sixpence ''

Baroness Orczy

---'' His Majesty's Well-beloved ''

---'' The League Of The Scarlet Pimpernel ''

Marcel Proust — ''Pastiches et mélanges''

Romain Rolland — '' The Forerunners ''

Mary Augusta Ward

---'' Fields Of Victory ''

---'' Helena ''

Virginia Woolf — '' Night And Day ''

NEW DRAMA

A. A. Milne - ''The Camberley Triangle''

Liviu Rebreanu - ''Cadrilul ("The Quadrille")''

POETRY

Edwin James Brady - '' The House Of The Winds ''

NON-FICTION

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 ''

SHORT STORY

" In The Penal Colony " - Franz Kafka

BIRTHS

January 1 - J. D. Salinger , novelist

January 7 - Robert Duncan , poet

January 25 - Edwin Newman , journalist, writer

March 24 - Robert Heilbroner , author of '' The Worldly Philosophers ''

May 17 - Robert H. Adleman , American novelist and historian

June 5 - Richard Scarry , children's author and illustrator

July 15 - Iris Murdoch , novelist

July 23 - Davis Grubb , novelist and short story writer

July 31 - Primo Levi , memoirist

October 22 - Doris Lessing , British novelist

November 23 - P. F. Strawson , philosopher

November 26 - Frederik Pohl , science fiction author

''date unknown''

--- Helen Forrester , memoirist and novelist

--- Charlotte Jay , suspense writer

--- Frank Kermode , literary critic

DEATHS

May 6 - L. Frank Baum , ''Wizard of Oz'' author

July 8 - John Fox, Jr. , American journalist, novelist, and short story writer

October 22 - W. N. P. Barbellion , author of the "Journal of a Disappointed Man''

''date unknown'' - Weedon Grossmith , co-author of ''Diary of a Nobody''

AWARDS

, '' The Education Of Henry Adams ''

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : ''no award given''

, ''Old Road to Paradise'' and Carl Sandburg , ''Corn Huskers''

- ''The Magnificent Ambersons''

, ''The Secret City''