1947 In Literature

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.

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.

'' Dialectic Of Enlightenment '' - Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer

'' Doctor Faustus '' - Thomas Mann

'' Eyes Of A Blue Dog '' - Gabriel García Márquez

'' Froth On The Daydream '' - Boris Vian

'' God Is For White Folks '' - Thomas Will

'' Goodnight Moon '' - Margaret Wise Brown

'' Great Northern? '' - Arthur Ransome

'' A High Wind Rising '' - Elsie Singmaster

'' I, The Jury '' - Mickey Spillane

'' Les Jeux Inconnus '' - François Boyer

'' Knock On Any Door '' - Willard Motley

'' Lear, Tolstoy And The Fool '' - George Orwell

'' 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 Pearl '' - John Steinbeck

'' The Plague '' (''La Peste'') - Albert Camus

'' Prince Of Foxes '' - Samuel Shellabarger

'' Querelle De Brest '' - Jean Genet

'' Rocket Ship Galileo '' - Robert A. Heinlein

'' Saggy Baggy Elephant '' - Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson

'' Snow Country '' - Yasunari Kawabata

'' Tales Of The South Pacific '' - James A. Michener

''Tarzan and the Foreign Legion'' - Edgar Rice Burroughs

'' Tea With Mrs Goodman '' - Philip Toynbee

'' Theatre '' - W. Somerset Maugham

'' Under The Volcano '' - Malcolm Lowry

'' Who Has Seen The Wind? '' - W.O. Mitchell

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 ''

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

, ''Miss Hickory''

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : ''no award given''

: ''Lord Weary's Castle''

- ''All the King's Men''

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