1946 in literature

See also: 1945 in literature, other events of 1946, 1947 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

\n* November 7 - Walker Percy marries Mary Bernice Townsend

• Animal Farm by George Orwell – becomes book of the year in USA
• Frederick Buechner receives a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

\n*All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren\n*Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric\n*The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care - Benjamin Spock\n*Delta Wedding - Eudora Welty\n*I Spit On Your Grave - Boris Vian\n*The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill\n*Jule - George Wylie Henderson\n*The Littlest Angel - Charles Tazewell\n*The Miracle of the Rose - Jean Genet\n*Mr. President - Miguel Angel Asturias\n*Mister Roberts - Thomas Heggen\n*The Story Of Dorothy Stanfield - Oscar Micheaux\n*Strawberry Girl - Lois Lenski\n*The Street - Ann Lane Petty\n*Then and Now - W. Somerset Maugham \n

Births

\n* October 1 - Tim O'Brien, novelist

Deaths

\n* July 8 - Orrick Glenday Johns, poet & playwright\n* August 13 - H. G. Wells, writer \n

Awards

\n* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl\n* Nobel Prize for literature: Hermann Hesse\n* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay, State of the Union\n* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given\n* Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given *