Events Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books The American Language - H. L. Mencken Caesar or Nothing - Pio Baroja Demian - Hermann Hesse Fields of Victory - Mary Augusta Ward The Forerunners - Romain Rolland Helena - Mary Augusta Ward The House of the Winds (poetry) - Edwin James Brady In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka Java Head - Joseph Hergesheimer Jurgen - James Branch Cabell The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham Night and Day - Virginia Woolf Who Was Responsible - Maggie Fullilove Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes Births January 1 - J. D. Salinger, novelist January 25 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer May 17 - Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian October 22 - Doris Lessing, British writer Deaths May 6 - L. Frank Baum Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Margaret Widdemer, Old Road to Paradise and Carl Sandburg, Corn Huskers Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons