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1947 in literature
See also:
1946 in literature
,
other events of 1947
,
1948 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
The Diary of Anne Frank
is published
Invisible Man[?]
by
Ralph Ellison
is published. In
2001
, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the
American Modern Library
.
New Books
Country Place[?]
-
Ann Lane Petty[?]
Creatures of Circumstance[?]
-
W. Somerset Maugham
The Cold War[?]
-
Walter Lippmann
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
Knock On Any Door[?]
-
Willard Motley[?]
Masquerade, a Historical Novel[?]
-
Oscar Micheaux
Miss Hickory[?]
-
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey[?]
The Moneyman[?]
-
Thomas Costain[?]
Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation[?]
-
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[?]
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
Newberry 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
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