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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''