Awards
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mary Treadgold, We Couldn't Leave Dinah
- Frost Medal: Robert Frost
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Joyce Cary, A House of Children
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Gore, King George V
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Armstrong Sperry, Call It Courage
- Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonard Bacon: Sunderland Capture
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given
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