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1947 in literature
See also: 1946 in literature, other events of 1947, 1948 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- The Diary of Anne Frank is published
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is published.
- Jack Kerouac makes the journey which he will later chronicle in his book On the Road.
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.
- Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
- Froth on the Daydream - Boris Vian
- God Is For White Folks - Thomas Will
- Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
- A High Wind Rising - Elsie Singmaster
- I, the Jury - Mickey Spillane
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Les Jeux Inconnus - François Boyer
- Knock On Any Door - Willard Motley
- Masquerade, a Historical Novel - Oscar Micheaux
- Miss Hickory - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
- The Moneyman - Thomas B. Costain
- - Samuel Putnam
- The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
- The Plague (La Peste) - Albert Camus
- Prince of Foxes - Samuel Shellabarger
- Rocket Ship Galileo - Robert Heinlein
- Saggy Baggy Elephant - Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson
- Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
- Tales of the South Pacific - James A. Michener
- Tea with Mrs Goodman - Philip Toynbee
- Theater - W. Somerset Maugham
- Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
- Who Has Seen the Wind? - W.O. Mitchell
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
- April 24 - Willa Cather
- December 7 - Tristan Bernard - French writer and lawyer
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 Men
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