1946 in literature
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See also: 1945 in literature, other events of 1946, 1947 in literature, list of years 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.
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
- Jule - George Wylie Henderson
- The Littlest Angel - Charles Tazewell
- The Miracle of the Rose - Jean Genet
- Mr. President - Miguel Ángel 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
New drama
- Eduardo De Filippo - Filumena Marturano
- Eugene O'Neill - The Iceman Cometh
- J. B. Priestley - An Inspector Calls
- Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy
Non-fiction
Births
- September 26 - Andrea Dworkin, author
- October 1 - Tim O'Brien, novelist
- October 11 - Leona Gom, author
- 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
- unknown date - May Sinclair, novelist
Awards
- Newbery 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
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