Presenter of the National Book Awards
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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His Acceptance Speech
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Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Jarrell
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
