1946 in literature
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See also: 1945 in literature, other events of 1946, 1947 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- November 7 - Walker Percy marries Mary Bernice Townsend
- Animal Farm by George Orwell – becomes book of the year in USA
- Frederick Buechner receives a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.
- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren is published.
[edit] New books
- Ivo Andric - Bridge on the Drina
- Miguel Ángel Asturias - Mr. President
- Simone de Beauvoir - Tous les hommes sont mortels
- Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock
- Errol Flynn - Showdown
- C. S. Forester - Lord Hornblower
- Pat Frank - Mr. Adam
- William Lindsay Gresham - Nightmare Alley
- Thomas Heggen - Mister Roberts
- George Wylie Henderson - Jule
- Christopher Isherwood - The Berlin Stories
- Arthur Koestler - Thieves in the Night
- Madeleine L'Engle - Ilsa
- Lois Lenski - Strawberry Girl
- W. Somerset Maugham - Then and Now
- Oscar Micheaux - The Story Of Dorothy Stanfield
- Ann Lane Petty - The Street
- Charles Tazewell - The Littlest Angel
- Boris Vian - I Spit On Your Grave
- Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
- Eudora Welty - Delta Wedding
- Ivan Yefremov - The Land of Foam
[edit] New drama
- Eduardo De Filippo - Filumena Marturano
- Eugene O'Neill - The Iceman Cometh
- J. B. Priestley - An Inspector Calls
- Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy
[edit] Non-fiction
- R. G. Collingwood – The Idea of History
- Jean Genet – Miracle de la rose
- Benjamin Spock - The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
[edit] Births
- August 29 - Leona Gom, author
- September 26 - Andrea Dworkin, author
- October 1 - Tim O'Brien, novelist
- October 20 - Elfriede Jelinek, author
- October 28 - Sharon Thesen, poet
- November 7 - Diane Francis, Canadian journalist and author
- November 18 - Alan Dean Foster, science fiction author
- December 11 - Ellen Meloy, author
[edit] Deaths
- March 1 - Adriana Porter, Wiccan poet
- March 19 - Catherine Carswell, novelist and biographer
- April 1 - Edward Sheldon, dramatist
- May 19 - Booth Tarkington, novelist and dramatist
- May 25 - Ernest Rhys, founder of the Everyman series
- June 2 - Carrie Ingalls, newspaper worker and sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- July 8 - Orrick Glenday Johns, poet & playwright
- July 22 - Edward Sperling, humorist
- July 27 - Gertrude Stein, poet and dramatist
- August 13 - H. G. Wells, ground-breaking science fiction novelist
- August 31 - Harley Granville-Barker, actor, dramatist and critic
- unknown date - May Sinclair, novelist
[edit] Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl
- Nobel Prize for literature: Hermann Hesse
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay, State of the Union
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given
