1946 in literature

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

New Books

• Jule - George Wylie Henderson
• The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
• Strawberry Girl - Lois Lenski
• The Story Of Dorothy Stanfield - Oscar Micheaux
• All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
• Then and Now - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Street - Ann Lane Petty
• The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care - Benjamin Spock
• The Littlest Angel - Charles Tazewell
• Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric
• Mr. President - Miguel Angel Asturias
• The Miracle of the Rose - Jean Genet
• Delta Wedding - Eudora Welty
• Mister Roberts - Thomas Heggen

Deaths

• August 13 - H. G. Wells, writer

Awards

• Nobel Prize for literature: Hermann Hesse
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay, State of the Union