1945 in literature

Events

• November 1 - Ebony Magazine[?] is published for the first time.

• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is published. In 2001, the book would be the third of his works named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• Loving[?] by Henry Green[?] 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

• The Age of Jackson[?] - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.[?]
• The Age of Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Black Boy[?] - Richard Wright
• The Black Rose[?] - Thomas B. Costain
• Bonheur d'occasion[?] (The Tin Flute) - Gabrielle Roy
• The Bosnian Trilogy[?] - Ivo Andric
• Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
• By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept[?] - Elizabeth Smart
• Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
• Caucasian Chalk Circle[?] - Bertolt Brecht
• Gigi - Colette
• High Ground[?] - Odella Phelps Wood[?]
• Loving[?] - Henry Green[?]
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes[?] - Cornell Woolrich
• The Naked and the Dead[?] - Norman Mailer
• The Open Society and Its Enemies[?] - Karl Popper
• The Policy King[?] - Lewis A. H. Caldwell[?]
• The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
• Rabbit Hill[?] - Robert Lawson[?]
• A Street in Bronzeville[?] - Gwendolyn Brooks[?]
• Stuart Little - E.B. White
• That Hideous Strength - C. S. Lewis
• Tootle[?] - Gertrude Crampton[?]
• Two Solitudes[?] - Hugh MacLennan
• The Wide House[?] - Taylor Caldwell

Births

• January 30 - Michael Dorris[?], author (+ 1997)
• April 27 - August Wilson, playwright
• April 30 - Annie Dillard
• July 9 - Dean R. Koontz

Deaths

• January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler[?], poet (* 1869)
• March 12 - Anne Frank, author of The Diary of Anne Frank, at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
• April 9 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (* 1906, murdered by German Nationalsozialists)
• May 15 - Charles Williams, British author
• August 26 - Franz Werfel, Czech writer
• December 4 - Arthur Morrison[?], writer
• December 28 - Theodore Dreiser, author

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Robert Lawson[?], Rabbit Hill
• Nobel Prize for literature: Gabriela Mistral
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Mary Chase[?], Harvey
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Karl Shapiro[?], V-Letter and Other Poems
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Hersey, A Bell for Adano