Calendar of Literary Facts
1947
- Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis (Diary of a Young Girl) is published
- Ngaio Marsh publishes Final Curtain
- On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen is published
- Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is produced
- Thomas Mann publishes Doctor Faustus
- Philip Larkin publishes A Girl in Winter
- John Milton Oskison dies
- Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire is produced
- André Gide receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Sidney Sheldon publishes The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
- Robert Penn Warren receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for All the King’s Men
- James A. Michener publishes Tales of the South Pacific
- Phyllis A. Whitney publishes Willow Hill
- Arthur Miller receives an Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for All My Sons
- A new constitution and democratic framework of government are established in Japan
- Paul Auster is born
- After years of protest (led by Mohandas K. Gandhi) against colonial rule, India is granted independence by Great Britain
- Dorothy Livesay publishes Poems for People
- Fritz Hochwaelder publishes Das heilige Experiment (The Strong Are Lonely)
- Carbon-14 geologic dating is developed by Willard F. Libby
- Ethel Davis Wilson publishes Hetty Dorval
- Ann Beattie is born (September 8)
- Sara Paretsky is born (June 8)
- Keri Hulme is born (March 9)
- Janet Campbell Hale is born (January 11)
- Allan Gurganus is born (June 11)
- Tom Clancy is born (March 12)
- Stephen R. Donaldson is born (May 13)
- Charles Baxter is born (May 13)
- Danielle Steel is born (August 14)
- P. J. O’Rourke is born (November 14)
- Linda Hogan is born (July 16)
- Duncan Campbell Scott dies (December 19)
- Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play major league baseball, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers (April 19)
- Salman Rushdie is born (June 19)
- Marsha Norman is born (September 21)
- Stephen King is born (September 21)
- Octavia E. Butler is born (June 22)
- George F. Walker is born (August 23)
- Willa Cather dies (April 24)
- Mark Helprin is born (June 28)
- Yusef Komunyakaa is born (April 29)
- David Mamet is born (November 30)
