National Book Award for Fiction 1981

Nominations

Winner	Plains Song: For Female Voices	Wright Morris
Winner	The Stories of John Cheever	John Cheever
	Endless Love	Scott Spencer
	The Transit of Venus	Shirley Hazzard
	So Long, See You Tomorrow	William Maxwell
	The Second Coming	Walker Percy
	The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty	Eudora Welty
	The Year of the French	Thomas Flanagan
	War and Remembrance	Herman Wouk
	The Executioner's Song	Norman Mailer