1947 in literature

Events

• The Diary of Anne Frank is published

• Invisible Man[?] by Ralph Ellison is published. In 2001, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• Country Place[?] - Ann Lane Petty[?]
• Creatures of Circumstance[?] - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Cold War[?] - Walter Lippmann
• 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
• Knock On Any Door[?] - Willard Motley[?]
• Masquerade, a Historical Novel[?] - Oscar Micheaux
• Miss Hickory[?] - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey[?]
• The Moneyman[?] - Thomas Costain[?]
• Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation[?] - 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[?]
• 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

• Newberry 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