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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

• 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

• 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
• The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
• 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

Births

• October 1 - Tim O'Brien, novelist

Deaths

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

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 given

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