The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1947 Literary Facts
Phyllis A. Whitney publishes Willow Hill
Arthur Miller receives an Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for All My Sons
Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis (Diary of a Young Girl) is published
Dorothy Livesay publishes Poems for People
Fritz Hochwaelder publishes Das heilige Experiment (The Strong Are Lonely)
James A. Michener publishes Tales of the South Pacific
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
Philip Larkin publishes A Girl in Winter
John Milton Oskison dies
Thomas Mann publishes Doctor Faustus
Robert Penn Warren receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for All the King’s Men
Sidney Sheldon publishes The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
André Gide receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire is produced
Ethel Davis Wilson publishes Hetty Dorval
Carbon-14 geologic dating is developed by Willard F. Libby
After years of protest (led by Mohandas K. Gandhi) against colonial rule, India is granted independence by Great Britain
A new constitution and democratic framework of government are established in Japan
Paul Auster is born
Janet Campbell Hale is born
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Keri Hulme is born
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Tom Clancy is born
Explore: The Ultimate Escape, Clear and Present Danger, Tom Clancy
Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play major league baseball, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers
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Willa Cather dies
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Yusef Komunyakaa is born
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Stephen R. Donaldson is born
Explore: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
Sara Paretsky is born
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Allan Gurganus is born
Salman Rushdie is born
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Octavia E. Butler is born
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Mark Helprin is born
Explore: Perfection, A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin
Linda Hogan is born
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Danielle Steel is born
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George F. Walker is born
Ann Beattie is born
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Stephen King is born
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Marsha Norman is born
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P. J. O’Rourke is born
David Mamet is born
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Duncan Campbell Scott dies