✐✎✐ Other Authors of the 1940s ✎✐✎

Although Arthur Miller's works sometimes ended on a depressing note, some authors of the 1940s made it their mission to spread hope through their literature.  Popular novelist William Saroyan authored a book called The Human Comedy, a story of a family that finds joy amid the heartache of World War II.

Another book written in the 1940s that's still widely read today, is George Orwell's Animal Farm.  I read this book recently; it's really fascinating.  It's an allegory, or political satire, criticizing the Russian revolution, showing the deception and corruption within the government, and how ordinary people are made to suffer to benefit the wealthy and elite.

One more book published in the '40s is The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank.  Written during the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, this book gives an accurate personal testimony of the horrors of World War II, from the perspective of Anne Frank, a young girl who hid from the Nazis for 2 years while writing this book in her journal.