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| 1947 |
| | | J.B. Priestley challenges audiences with An Inspector Calls, a play in which moral guilt spreads like an infection | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Norman Mailer has immediate succes with his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, based on his military service in the Pacific | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US poet Theodore Roethke publishes The Lost Son, his second collection | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Ezra Pound publishes Pisan Cantos, about his postwar imprisonment in an American detention centre near Pisa | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US novelist and poet Jack Kerouac coins a term for his contemporaries, the Beat Generation | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Christopher Fry's verse drama The Lady's Not For Burning engages in high-spirited poetic word play | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Annie Allen, by US author Gwendolyn Brooks, describes in narrative verse the life of a black girl in contemporary USA | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Death of a Salesman, by US playwright Arthur Miller, has its first performance in New York | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Enid Blyton introduces her most successful character, Noddy, a small boy who can't avoid nodding when he speaks | |
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| 1949 |
| | | George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel set in a terrifying totalitarian state of the future, watched over by Big Brother | |
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