National Book Awards - 1961
FICTION
Winner:
Conrad Richter ,
The Waters of Kronos
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Finalists:
Louis
Auchincloss -
The House of Five Talents
Kay Boyle -
Generation Without Farewell
John Hersey -
The Child Buyer
John Knowles -
A Separate Peace
Harper Lee -
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wright Morris -
Ceremony in Lone Tree
Flannery O'Connor -
The Violent Bear
It Away
Elizabeth Spencer -
The Light in the
Piazza and Other Italian Tales
Francis Steegmuller -
The Christening
Party
John Updike -
Rabbit, Run
Mildred Walker -
The Body of a Young
Man
NONFICTION
Winner:
William L. Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Finalists:
Isaac
Asimov -
The Intelligent Man's Guide
to Science
Peter Blake -
The Master Builders
George Dangerfield -
Chancellor Robert
R. Livingston
David Donald -
Charles Sumner and the
Coming of the Civil War
William O. Douglas -
My Wilderness
Loren Eiseley -
Firmament of Time
John Graves -
Goodbye to a River
T.S. Mathews -
Name and Address
Elizabeth Nowell -
Thomas Wolfe
Harlan B. Phillips -
Felix Frankfurter
Reminisces
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
The Politics
of Upheaval
POETRY
Winner:
Randall Jarrell,
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
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Finalists:
W.H. Auden -
Homage to Clio
J.V. Cunninghan -
The Exclusions of
Rhyme
Robert Duncan -
The Opening of the Field
Richard Eberhart -
Collected Poems
Donald Justice -
The Summer Anniversaries
Howard Nemerov -
New and Selected Poems
John Frederick Nims -
Knowledge of the
Evening
Anne Sexton -
To Bedlam and Part Way
Back
George Starbuck -
Bone Thoughts
Eleanor Ross Taylor -
Wilderness of
Ladies
Theodore Weiss -
Outlanders
Yvor Winters -
Collected Poems