See also: 1946 in literature, other events of 1947, 1948 in literature, list of years 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
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