Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index See also: 1944 in literature, other events of 1945, 1946 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events November 1 - Ebony Magazine is published for the first time. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is published. In 2001, the book would be the third of his works named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. Loving by Henry Green is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books The Age of Jackson - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr The Age of Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre Animal Farm - George Orwell Black Boy - Richard Wright The Black Rose - Thomas B. Costain Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute) - Gabrielle Roy The Bosnian Trilogy - Ivo Andric Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart Cannery Row - John Steinbeck Caucasian Chalk Circle - Bertolt Brecht Gigi - Colette High Ground - Odella Phelps Wood Loving - Henry Green Night Has a Thousand Eyes - Cornell Woolrich The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer The Open Society and Its Enemies - Karl Popper The Policy King - Lewis A. H. Caldwell The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford Rabbit Hill - Robert Lawson A Street in Bronzeville - Gwendolyn Brooks Stuart Little - E.B. White Surrender on Demand - Varian Fry That Hideous Strength - C. S. Lewis Tootle - Gertrude Crampton Two Solitudes - Hugh MacLennan The Wide House - Taylor Caldwell Births January 30 - Michael Dorris, author (+ 1997) April 27 - August Wilson, playwright April 30 - Annie Dillard July 9 - Dean R. Koontz Deaths January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler, poet (* 1869) March 12 - Anne Frank, author of The Diary of Anne Frank, at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp April 9 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (* 1906, murdered by German Nationalsozialists) May 15 - Charles Williams, British author August 26 - Franz Werfel, Czech writer December 4 - Arthur Morrison, writer December 28 - Theodore Dreiser, author Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill Nobel Prize for literature: Gabriela Mistral Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Mary Chase, Harvey Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Hersey, A Bell for Adano This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.