1947 In Literature

The year 1947 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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 .

NEW BOOKS

Cynthia Asquith - '' This Mortal Coil ''

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 ''

William Hope Hodgson - '' Carnacki, The Ghost-Finder ''

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

Carl Jacobi - '' Revelations In Black ''

Yasunari Kawabata - '' Snow Country ''

Fritz Leiber, Jr. - '' Night's Black Agents ''

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 ''

Cesare Pavese - ''Il compagno''

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 ''

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 ''

POETRY

Kingsley Amis - '' Bright November ''

Abba Kovner - '' Ad Lo-Or ("Until No-Light")''

NON-FICTION

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

Emil Brunner - '' The Divine Imperative ''.

L. Sprague De Camp - '' The Evolution Of Naval Weapons ''.

Bernard DeVoto - '' Across The Wide Missouri ''.

Walter Lippmann - '' The Cold War ''.

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

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''

, ''La sombra del ciprés es alargada''

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

: ''Lord Weary's Castle''

- ''All the King's Men''

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