National Book Award for Fiction 1961

Nominations

Winner	The Waters of Kronos	Conrad Richter
	The House of Five Talents	Louis Auchincloss
	Generation Without Farewell	Kay Boyle
	The Child Buyer	John Hersey
	A Separate Peace	John Knowles
	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
	Ceremony in Lone Tree	Wright Morris
	The Violent Bear It Away	Flannery O'Connor
	The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales	Elizabeth Spencer
	The Christening Party	Francis Steegmuller
	Rabbit, Run	John Updike
	The Body of a Young Man	Mildred Walker