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See also: 1918 in literature, other events of 1919, 1920 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The American Language by H. L. Mencken

Births

January 1 - J. D. Salinger, novelist
January 25 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer
October 22 - Doris Lessing, British writer

Deaths

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Margaret Widdemer - Old Road to Paradise and Carl Sandburg - Corn Huskers

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