1947

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Years: 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950

Contents

[edit] Events

  • April 15 - Jackie Robinson, an African-American, plays first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, ending the sport's unofficial rule against blacks playing.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Films Released

  • Hue and Cry

[edit] New Books

  • The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
  • Bright November - Kingsley Amis' first collection of poems
  • Country Place - Ann Lane Petty
  • Creatures of Circumstance - W. Somerset Maugham
  • The Cold War - Walter Lippmann
  • Dark Carnival - Ray Bradbury's first book.
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment - Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
  • Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
  • Eyes of a Blue Dog - Gabriel García Márquez
  • Froth on the Daydream - Boris Vian
  • God Is For White Folks - Thomas Will
  • Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
  • Great Northern? - Arthur Ransome
  • A High Wind Rising - Elsie Singmaster
  • I, the Jury - Mickey Spillane
  • Les Jeux Inconnus - François Boyer
  • Knock On Any Door - Willard Motley
  • Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool - George Orwell
  • Masquerade, a Historical Novel - Oscar Micheaux
  • Miss Hickory - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
  • The Moneyman - Thomas B. Costain
  • Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation - Samuel Putnam
  • The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
  • The Pearl - John Steinbeck
  • The Plague (La Peste) - Albert Camus
  • Prince of Foxes - Samuel Shellabarger
  • Rocket Ship Galileo - Robert A. Heinlein
  • Saggy Baggy Elephant - Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson
  • Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
  • Tales of the South Pacific - James A. Michener
  • Tarzan and the Foreign Legion - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Tea with Mrs Goodman - Philip Toynbee
  • Theatre - W. Somerset Maugham
  • Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
  • Who Has Seen the Wind? - W.O. Mitchell