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| 1946 |
| | | Ezra Pound, charged with treason for his wartime broadcasts, begins twelve years in a US hospital for the criminally insane | |
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| 1946 |
| | | US poet Elizabeth Bishop publishes her first collection of poems, North and South | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Bertolt Brecht's play The Life of Galileo has its premiere in Los Angeles with Charles Laughton in the lead | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Marlon Brando stars on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar named Desire | |
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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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| 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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