Overview of the events of 1919 in literature
Events from the year 1919 in literature .
February – Richmal Crompton 's anarchic English schoolboy William Brown is introduced in the first published Just William Home magazine.
March 1 – October 15 – Publication runs of the American pulp magazine The Thrill Book fantasy genre or science fiction . It includes the serialization of The Heads of Cerberus 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 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 May 2 ).[ 2] 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] August 29 – The State Library (Valsts Bibliotēka ) of Latvia , predecessor of the National Library , is founded in Riga[ 6] [ 7] 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 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 [ 8] December – T. E. Lawrence loses most of the manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom Reading in England en route from the Paris Peace Conference to Oxford.[ 9]
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Children and young people [ edit ] January 1 – J. D. Salinger , American novelist (died 2010 )[ 14] January 7 – Robert Duncan , American poet (died 1988 )[ 15] 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 )[ 16] 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 )[ 17] 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 )[ 19] April 24 – Mihu Dragomir , Romanian poet, journalist and short story writer (died 1964 )May 7 – Robert H. Adleman , American novelist and historian (died 1995 )[ 20] May 16 – John Robinson , English Bible scholar, religious writer and bishop (died 1983 )May 17 – Merle Miller , American biographer and screenwriter (died 1986 )[ 21] June 6 – Helen Forrester (June Bhatia), English memoirist and novelist (died 2011 )June 8 – Władysław Siemaszko , Polish publicist, lawyer and writer[ 22] June 27 – Jaswant Singh Kanwal , Punjabi novelist (died 2020 )June 28 – Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu , Romanian philosopher, novelist and dramatist (died 1989 )July 9 – Denys Rhodes , Irish-born novelist (died 1981 )July 15 – Iris Murdoch , Irish-born novelist (died 1999 )[ 23] July 23
July 31 – Primo Levi , Italian novelist and memoirist (died 1987 )[ 24] August 1 – Stanley Middleton , English novelist (died 2009 )August 4 – Michel Déon , French writer (died 2016 )[ 25] August 31 – Amrita Pritam , Punjabi poet and novelist (died 2005 )September 13
September 23 – Tōta Kaneko , Japanese writer (died 2018 )[ 27] September 26 – Matilde Camus , Spanish poet (died 2012 )October 22 – Doris Lessing , Persian-born English novelist (died 2013 )[ 28] November 18 – Jocelyn Brando , American actress and writer (died 2005 )[ 29] November 23 – P. F. Strawson , English philosopher (died 2006 )November 26 – Frederik Pohl , American science fiction author (died 2013 )[ 30] November 29 – Frank Kermode , Manx-born literary critic (died 2010 )[ 31] December 6 – Paul de Man , Belgian-born literary critic (died 1983 )[ 32] December 17
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 )
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