1946 in literature

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

• Newberry 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