1946 in literature

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The year 1946 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

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• November 7 - Walker Percy marries Mary Bernice Townsend.
• Animal Farm by George Orwell – becomes book of the year in the USA.
• Frederick Buechner receives a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren is published.

New books

• Miguel Ángel Asturias - The President
• Simone de Beauvoir - Tous les hommes sont mortels
• Algernon Blackwood - The Doll and One Other
• John Dickson Carr
  • He Who Whispers
  • My Late Wives (as by Carter Dickson)
• Agatha Christie - The Hollow
• A.E. Coppard - Fearful Pleasures
• Edmund Crispin - The Moving Toyshop
• Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock
• Errol Flynn - Showdown
• C.S. Forester - Lord Hornblower
• Pat Frank - Mr. Adam
• William Lindsay Gresham - Nightmare Alley
• João Guimarães Rosa - Sagarana
• Thomas Heggen - Mister Roberts
• Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, editors - Adventures in Time and Space
• George Wylie Henderson - Jule
• William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland and Other Novels
• Robert E. Howard - Skull-Face and Others
• Christopher Isherwood - The Berlin Stories
• Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek
• Arthur Koestler - Thieves in the Night
• Madeleine L'Engle - Ilsa
• Lois Lenski - Strawberry Girl
• Frank Belknap Long - The Hounds of Tindalos
• W. Somerset Maugham - Then and Now
• Carson McCullers - Member of the Wedding
• Oscar Micheaux - The Story Of Dorothy Stanfield
• Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan
• Ann Lane Petty - The Street
• Anya Seton - The Turquoise
• Rex Stout - The Silent Speaker
• Phoebe Atwood Taylor
  • The Asey Mayo Trio
  • Punch with Care
• Charles Tazewell - The Littlest Angel
• A.E. van Vogt - Slan
• Boris Vian - I Spit On Your Grave
• H. Russell Wakefield - The Clock Strikes Twelve
• Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
• Eudora Welty - Delta Wedding
• Henry S. Whitehead - West India Lights
• Ivan Yefremov - The Land of Foam

New drama

• Eduardo De Filippo - Filumena Marturano
• Eugene O'Neill - The Iceman Cometh
• J.B. Priestley - An Inspector Calls
• Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy

Poetry

Main article: 1946 in poetry

Non-fiction

• R.G. Collingwood – The Idea of History
• Jean Genet – Miracle de la rose
• Benjamin Spock - The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Births

• August 29 - Leona Gom, author
• September 26 - Andrea Dworkin, author
• October 1 - Tim O'Brien, novelist
• October 20 - Elfriede Jelinek, author
• October 28 - Sharon Thesen, poet
• November 7 - Diane Francis, Canadian journalist and author
• November 18 - Alan Dean Foster, science fiction author
• December 11 - Ellen Meloy, author

Deaths

• March 1 - Adriana Porter, Wiccan poet
• March 19 - Catherine Carswell, novelist and biographer
• April 1 - Edward Sheldon, dramatist
• May 19 - Booth Tarkington, novelist and dramatist
• May 25 - Ernest Rhys, founder of the Everyman series
• June 2 - Carrie Ingalls, newspaper worker and sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder
• July 8 - Orrick Glenday Johns, poet & playwright
• July 22 - Edward Sperling, humorist
• July 27 - Gertrude Stein, poet and dramatist
• August 13 - H.G. Wells, ground-breaking science fiction novelist
• August 31 - Harley Granville-Barker, actor, dramatist and critic
• November 14 - May Sinclair, novelist, 83

Awards

• Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Oliver Onions, Poor Man's Tapestry
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Richard Aldington, Wellington
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl
• Nobel Prize for literature: Hermann Hesse
• Premio Nadal: José María Gironella, Un hombre
• 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