1947 in literature Totally Explained

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The year 1947 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

The Diary of Anne Frank is published for the first time.
Jack Kerouac makes the journey which he'll later chronicle in his book On the Road.
Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.
Dalton Trumbo refuses to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Ring Lardner, Jr., attends, but refuses to answer any questions.
Kenneth Arnold witnesses nine Flying saucers, starting a huge amount of enthuisiasm in science fiction writers and scientists.

New books

Cynthia Asquith - This Mortal Coil

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey - Miss Hickory

François Boyer - Les Jeux Inconnus

Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival

Margaret Wise Brown - Goodnight Moon

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Foreign Legion

Italo Calvino - The Path to the Nest of Spiders

Albert Camus - The Plague (La Peste)

Thomas B. Costain - The Moneyman

Jean Genet - Querelle de Brest

Robert A. Heinlein - Rocket Ship Galileo

William Hope Hodgson - Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder

Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson - Saggy Baggy Elephant

Carl Jacobi - Revelations in Black

Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country

Fritz Leiber, Jr. - Night's Black Agents

Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano

Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus

Gabriel García Márquez - Eyes of a Blue Dog

W. Somerset Maugham

Oscar Micheaux - Masquerade, a Historical Novel

James A. Michener - Tales of the South Pacific

W.O. Mitchell - Who Has Seen the Wind?

Alberto Moravia - The Woman of Rome (La Romana)

Willard Motley - Knock On Any Door

Cesare Pavese - Il compagno

Ann Lane Petty - Country Place

Arthur Ransome - Great Northern?

Samuel Shellabarger - Prince of Foxes

Elsie Singmaster - A High Wind Rising

Mickey Spillane - I, the Jury

John Steinbeck - The Pearl (novel)

Rex Stout - Too Many Women

Philip Toynbee - Tea with Mrs Goodman

Boris Vian - Froth on the Daydream

Thomas Will - God Is For White Folks

Jack Williamson - With Folded Hands

New drama

Jean Anouilh - L'Invitation au Chateau (Ring Round the Moon)

Jean Genet - Les bonnes (The Maids)

Arthur Miller - All My Sons

Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire

Poetry

Kingsley Amis - Bright November

August Derleth editor -

Abba Kovner - Ad Lo-Or ("Until No-Light")

Non-fiction

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer - Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Emil Brunner - The Divine Imperative.

L. Sprague de Camp - The Evolution of Naval Weapons.

Bernard DeVoto - Across the Wide Missouri.

Walter Lippmann - The Cold War.

George Orwell - Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool.

Samuel Putnam - .

Births

February 3 - Paul Auster, novelist

April 12 - Tom Clancy, novelist

June 19 - Salman Rushdie, author

September 21 - Stephen King, author

October 19 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator

Deaths

February 1 - J. D. Beresford, short story writer

February 15 - Margaret Marshall Saunders, Canadian author

April 24 - Willa Cather

November 12 - Baroness Orczy, "Scarlet Pimpernel" author

December 7 - Tristan Bernard - French writer and lawyer

December 15 - Arthur Machen, journalist, novelist and short story writer

date unknown - Anna Wickham, poet

Awards

Frost Medal: Gustav Davidson

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: L. P. Hartley, Eustace and Hilda

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Rev. C. C. E. Raven, English Naturalists from Neckham to Ray

Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Miss Hickory

Nobel Prize for literature: André Gide

Premio Nadal: Miguel Delibes, La sombra del ciprés es alargada

Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell: Lord Weary's Castle

Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Robert Penn Warren - All the King's MenFurther Information

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