1948 in literature

See also: 1947 in literature, other events of 1948, 1949 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• The first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's "The Second World War" (1948–1953) is published.

New Books

• The American Political Tradition - Richard Hofstadter
• The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
• The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pène du Bois
• The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
• Seraph On The Sewanee - Zora Neale Hurston
• Catalina - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline - Isaac Asimov
• The Golden Warrior - Hope Muntz
• Last Of The Conquerors - William Gardner Smith
• Melissa (novel) - Taylor Caldwell
• My Glorious Brothers - Howard Fast
• The Living Is Easy - Dorothy West
• The World is Not Enough - Zoe B. Oldenbourg
• Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
• The Hearth and the Eagle - Anya Seton Chase

Births

• February 5 - Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director, composer
• February 28 - Mike Figgis, director, writer, composer

Awards

• Nobel Prize for literature - Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James A. Michener - Tales of the South Pacific
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. H. Auden: The Age of Anxiety
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire