1947 in literature
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[edit] Events
- The Diary of Anne Frank is published for the first time.
- Jack Kerouac makes the journey which he will 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.
[edit] New books
- 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
- Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson - Saggy Baggy Elephant
- Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
- Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano
- Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus
- Gabriel García Márquez - Eyes of a Blue Dog
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Creatures of Circumstance
- Theatre
- 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
- 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)
- Philip Toynbee - Tea with Mrs Goodman
- Boris Vian - Froth on the Daydream
- Thomas Will - God Is For White Folks
- Jack Williamson - With Folded Hands
[edit] 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
[edit] Poetry
- Kingsley Amis - Bright November
- Abba Kovner - Ad Lo-Or ("Until No-Light")
[edit] Non-fiction
- Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer - Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Bernard DeVoto - Across the Wide Missouri
- Walter Lippmann - The Cold War
- George Orwell - Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
- Samuel Putnam - Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Awards
- Frost Medal: Gustav Davidson
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Miss Hickory
- Nobel Prize for literature: André Paul Guillaume Gide
- 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 Men
