1946 in literature

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

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

Events

• 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.

New books

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

New drama

• Eduardo De Filippo - Filumena Marturano
• Eugene O'Neill - The Iceman Cometh
• J. B. Priestley - An Inspector Calls
• Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy

Non-fiction

• Jean Genet - Miracle de la rose

Births

• September 26 - Andrea Dworkin, author
• October 1 - Tim O'Brien, novelist
• October 11 - Leona Gom, author
• October 20 - Elfriede Jelinek, author
• October 28 - Sharon Thesen, poet
• November 7 - Diane Francis, Canadian journalist and author
• December 11 - Ellen Meloy, author

Deaths

• March 1 - Adriana Porter, Wiccan poet
• March 19 - Catherine Carswell, novelist and biographer
• April 1 - Edward Sheldon, dramatist
• May 19 - Booth Tarkington, novelist and dramatist
• May 25 - Ernest Rhys, founder of the Everyman series
• June 2 - Carrie Ingalls, newspaper worker and sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder
• July 8 - Orrick Glenday Johns, poet & playwright
• July 22 - Edward Sperling, humorist
• July 27 - Gertrude Stein, poet and dramatist
• August 13 - H. G. Wells, ground-breaking science fiction novelist
• August 31 - Harley Granville-Barker, actor, dramatist and critic
• unknown date - May Sinclair, novelist

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl
• Nobel Prize for literature: Hermann Hesse
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay, State of the Union
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award givenfr:1946 en littérature

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