Events Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Huxley to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books 1919 - John Dos Passos Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh Brave New World - Aldous Huxley A Broken Journey - Morley Callaghan Burning Bush - Sigrid Undset Christmas Pudding - Nancy Mitford The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem - Rudolph Fisher The Fortress - Hugh Walpole Guys and Dolls - Damon Runyon Infants Of The Spring - Wallace Thurman Josephus - Lion Feuchtwanger Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline Le Pur et L'Impur - Colette Light in August - William Faulkner Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Norman Hall The Richest Woman in Town - Henry Bellamann Selected Essays, 1917-1932 - T. S. Eliot The Sheltered Life - Ellen Glasgow The Son Avenger - Sigrid Undset Sons - Pearl S. Buck Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell Waterless Mountain - Laura Adams Armer Births January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, author February 7 - Gay Talese, author October 27 - Sylvia Plath, poet Deaths Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain Nobel Prize for literature: John Galsworthy Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain Nobel Prize for literature: John Galsworthy Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth