Editing 1919 in literature (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] – [[Eliza Putnam Heaton]], American journalist and editor (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])
*[[January 4]] – [[Matilda Betham-Edwards]], English novelist, poet and travel writer (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])
*[[January 11]] – [[Kazimierz Zalewski]], Polish dramatist, critic and publisher (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])
*[[January 15]] – [[Rosa Luxemburg]], Polish-born German revolutionary socialist (assassinated, born [[1871 in literature|1871]])
*[[January 31]] – [[Paul Lindau]], German dramatist (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])
*[[February 24]] – [[Mary Ann Maitland]], Scottish-born Canadian author (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])
*[[February 26]] – [[Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie|Anne Thackeray Ritchie]], English novelist and essayist (born [[1837 in literature|1837]])
*[[May 2]] – [[Gustav Landauer]], German philosopher and revolutionary (murdered, born [[1870 in literature|1870]])
*[[May 6]] – [[L. Frank Baum]], children's writer (stroke, born [[1856 in literature|1856]])
*[[May 10]] – [[Ferdinando Fontana]], Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])
*[[May 17]] – [[Guido von List]], Viennese poet, dramatist, and occultist (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
*[[May 30]] – [[Barbu Nemțeanu]], Romanian poet and translator (tuberculosis, born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
*[[June 14]] – [[Weedon Grossmith]], English writer, actor and playwright (born [[1854 in literature|1854]])
*[[June 19]] – [[Petre P. Carp]], Romanian politician, polemicist, and translator (born [[1837 in literature|1837]])
*[[June 23]] – [[Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao]], Indian dramatist (born [[1854 in literature|1854]])
*[[July 8]] – [[John Fox, Jr.]], American novelist and short story writer (pneumonia, born [[1862 in literature|1862]])
*[[August 6]] – [[Ada Langworthy Collier]], American author (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])
*[[August 10]] – [[Cynthia Morgan St. John]], American Wordsworthian, book collector, and author (pneumonia, born [[1852 in literature|1852]])
*[[August 11]] – [[Andrew Carnegie]], Scottish American industrialist and writer (pneumonia, born [[1835 in literature|1835]])
*[[September 12]] – [[Leonid Andreyev]], Russian dramatist, novelist and short-story writer (heart failure, born [[1871 in literature|1871]])
*[[October 22]] – [[W. N. P. Barbellion]] (Bruce Frederick Cummings), English naturalist and diarist (multiple sclerosis, born [[1889 in literature|1889]]) 
*[[October 30]] – [[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]], American author and poet (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])
*[[November 3]] – [[Abraham Valdelomar]], Peruvian poet, essayist and dramatist (accidental fall, born [[1888 in literature|1888]])
*[[November 20]] – [[Jane Lippitt Patterson]], American writer and editor (born [[1829 in literature|1829]])
*[[December 19]] – [[Alice Moore McComas]], American author, editor, lecturer and reformer (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])