1947 in literature
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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.
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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
- Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation - 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
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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
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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
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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
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Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Miss Hickory
- Nobel Prize for literature: André Paul Guillaume Gide
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell: Lord Weary's Castle
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Menfr:1947 en littérature