1961 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Conrad Richter |
The Waters of Kronos
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| Louis Auchincloss |
The House of Five Talents
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| Kay Boyle |
Generation Without Farewell
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| John Hersey |
The Child Buyer
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| John Knowles |
A Separate Peace
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| Harper Lee |
To Kill a Mockingbird
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| Wright Morris |
Ceremony in Lone Tree
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| Flannery O'Connor |
The Violent Bear It Away
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| Elizabeth Spencer |
The Light in the Piazza
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| Francis Steegmuller |
The Christening Party
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| John Updike |
Rabbit, Run
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| Mildred Walker |
The Body of a Young Man
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National Book Award for Nonfiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William L. Shirer |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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| Isaac Asimov |
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
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| Peter Blake |
The Master Builders. Le Corbusier, Mies VanDer Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright
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| George Dangerfield |
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813
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| David Herbert Donald |
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
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| William O. Douglas |
My Wilderness
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| Loren Eiseley |
The Firmament of Time
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| John Graves |
Goodbye to a River
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| T.S. Mathews |
Name and Address
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| Elizabeth Nowell |
Thomas Wolfe
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| Harlan B. Phillips |
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces
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| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
The Politics of Upheaval
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Randall Jarrell |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
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| W. H. Auden |
Homage to Clio
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| J. V. Cunningham |
The exclusions of a rhyme
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| Robert Duncan |
The Opening of the Field
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| Richard Eberhart |
Collected poems, 1930-1960
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| Donald Justice |
The Summer Anniversaries
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| Howard Nemerov |
New and Selected Poems
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| John Frederick Nims |
Knowledge of the evening
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| Anne Sexton |
To Bedlam and part way back
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| George Starbuck |
Bone thoughts
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| Eleanor Ross Taylor |
Wilderness of ladies
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| Theodore Weiss |
Outlanders
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| Yvor Winters |
Collected Poems
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