Calendar of Literary Facts
1946
- Jacques Audiberti’s play Quoat-Quoat is first produced
- Christopher Isherwood publishes The Berlin Stories
- Robert E. Sherwood’s screenplay for The Best Years of Our Lives is brought to the motion-picture screen by RKO Studios
- Alejo Carpentier publishes La musica en Cuba
- Miguel Angel Asturias publishes El senor presidente (The President)
- Frank Yerby publishes The Foxes of Harrow
- Robert Penn Warren publishes All the King’s Men
- Terence Rattigan publishes The Winslow Boy
- Hermann Hesse receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Robert Lowell publishes Lord Weary’s Castle
- Malcolm Cowley publishes the Viking Portable Faulkner, a work which rejuvenated the critical reputation of William Faulkner
- Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay’s drama State of the Union is first performed
- Benjamin Spock publishes The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
- Civil war rages in China between Mao Tse-tung’s communists and Koumintang forces under Chiang Kai-shek; in the end, Mao’s Reds triumph
- The first electronic supercomputer, called Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer (ENIAC) is developed
- Owen Dodson publishes Powerful Long Ladder
- Stung by the published criticisms of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian dictator Juan Perón appoints Borges to a position as poultry inspector for the Buenos Aires Municipal Market
- P. G. Wodehouse publishes Joy in the Morning
- Eudora Welty publishes Delta Wedding
- Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama for State of the Union
- Elizabeth Bishop publishes North & South
- Carson McCullers publishes The Member of the Wedding
- The Nuremburg War Crimes Trials end; twelve defendents are sentenced to death by hanging, three to life imprisonment, four to lesser prison terms, and three acquitted (October 1)
- Marcio Souza is born (March 4)
- Winston Churchill delivers his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri (March 5)
- Susan Elaine Townsend is born (September 5)
- Gerhart Hauptmann dies (June 6)
- Countee Cullen dies (January 9)
- H. G. Wells dies (August 13)
- Tim O’Brien is born (October 14)
- Alan Dean Foster is born (November 18)
- Booth Tarkington dies (May 19)
- Stephen Coonts is born (July 19)
- Julian Barnes is born (January 19)
- Andrei Codrescu is born (December 20)
- Lewis Grizzard is born (October 20)
- Larry Shue is born (July 23)
- Eric Van Lustbader is born (December 24)
- Gertrude Stein dies (July 27)
- Harley Granville-Barker dies (August 31)
