1947 In Literature

Events

• The Diary of Anne Frank is published
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is published.
• Jack Kerouac makes the journey which he will later chronicle in his book On the Road.

New books

• Bright November - Kingsley Amis' first collection of poems
• Country Place - Ann Lane Petty
• Creatures of Circumstance - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Cold War - Walter Lippmann
• Dark Carnival - Ray Bradbury's first book.
• Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
• Froth on the Daydream - Boris Vian
• God Is For White Folks - Thomas Will
• Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
• A High Wind Rising - Elsie Singmaster
• I, the Jury - Mickey Spillane
• Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
• Les Jeux Inconnus - Franois Boyer
• Knock On Any Door - Willard Motley
• Masquerade, a Historical Novel - Oscar Micheaux
• Miss Hickory - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
• The Moneyman - Thomas B. Costain
• - Samuel Putnam
• The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
• The Plague (La Peste) - Albert Camus
• Prince of Foxes - Samuel Shellabarger
• Rocket Ship Galileo - Robert Heinlein
• Saggy Baggy Elephant - Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson
• Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
• Tales of the South Pacific - James A. Michener
• Tea with Mrs Goodman - Philip Toynbee
• Theater - W. Somerset Maugham
• Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
• Who Has Seen the Wind? - W.O. Mitchell

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

• April 24 - Willa Cather
• December 7 - Tristan Bernard - French writer and lawyer

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Miss Hickory
• Nobel Prize for literature: Andr 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

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