1961 in literature

none 1961 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1961. Events January 24 – The American dramatist Arthur Miller and the film star Marilyn Monroe are granted a divorce in Mexico on grounds of incompatibility.1961: End of the road for Monroe and Miller http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/24/newsid_4588000/4588212.stm BBC On This Day 24 January 1961 2013-04-18 February – Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage. Several of her poems, including "Parliament Hill Fields", address the event.Kirk Connie Ann 2004 Sylvia Plath: A Biography Westport, CN Greenwood Press 0-313-33214-2 85 March 15 – Hugh Wheeler's comedy Big Fish, Little Fish opens at the ANTA Theater in New York City, directed by Sir John Gielgud. It is one of the early Broadway plays to explore frankly the issue of male homosexuality.Senelick Laurence 2013 Theatre Arts on Acting Routledge 978-1134723751 74 March 20 – The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, becomes the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and its company the Royal Shakespeare Company, with Peter Hall as director.http://www.rsc.org.uk/about-us/history-key-dates.aspx Key Dates Royal Shakespeare Company 2010 30 June 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100616162051/http://www.rsc.org.uk/about-us/history-key-dates.aspx 16 June 2010 dead May – Grove Press publishes Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the United States 27 years after its original publication in France. The book leads to one of many obscenity trials (Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein) that test American laws on pornography in the 1960s. May 27 – The British bookseller WHSmith closes the last of its in-store circulating library branches.British Librarianship and Information Science https://books.google.com/books?id=KeQ4AQAAIAAJ 1961 Library Association 228 August 8 – The first issue of Fantastic Four, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, is published. It is considered the beginning of the post-World War II Marvel Comics line of superhero comic books. August 18 – The British magazine Tribune publishes a letter from playwright John Osborne beginning "Damn You, England..."Luc Gilleman John Osborne: Vituperative Artist https://books.google.com/books?id=UMPKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA238 4 February 2014 Routledge 978-1-317-84281-1 238 September 8 – Publication of the science fiction novel series Perry Rhodan, der Erbe des Universums, originally written by K. H. Scheer and Walter Ernsting, is begun by Arthur Moewig Verlag in Germany in Romanhefte (partwork) format. It is then published every week, attaining more than 2880 issues and around two billion total copies sold worldwide by the end of 2016.Imprimatur: Ein Jahrbuch Für Bücherfreunde https://books.google.com/books?id=lRrhAAAAMAAJ 2003 Im Verlag der Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen 186 de September 14 – Novelist William Golding, having resigned a teaching post at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury, sets off for the academic year 1961/1962 to teach at Hollins College, Virginia, United States.John Carey John Carey (critic) William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies' London Faber 2009 9780571231638 registration https://archive.org/details/williamgoldingma0000care November 10 – Joseph Heller's satirical novel Catch-22 is first put on sale by Simon & Schuster in the United States, after favorable advance reviews in October. Heller has been working on the book since 1953, based on his experiences as a bombardier during World War II. Its title, which becomes a phrase referring to a no-win situation, had previously been Catch-18.Harold Bloom Harold Bloom Joseph Heller's Catch-22 Infobase Publishing 2007What is Catch-22? And why does the book matter? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1868619.stm BBC News 2002-03-12 2016-01-23 unknown date – Michael Halliday publishes a seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model.Halliday M. A. K. 1961 Categories of the theory of grammar WORD International Linguistic Association 17 3 241–292 10.1080/00437956.1961.11659756 free New books Fiction Brian Aldiss – The Primal UrgeMichael R. Collings Brian Aldiss https://books.google.com/books?id=E7evXX56elIC&pg=PA15 1 January 1986 Wildside Press LLC 978-0-916732-74-5 15 Poul Anderson – Three Hearts and Three LionsNorris J. Lacy Geoffrey Ashe Sandra Ness Ihle The New Arthurian Encyclopedia: New edition https://books.google.com/books?id=hf6zAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 5 September 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-60633-5 8 J. G. Ballard – The Wind From Nowhere James Barlow – Term of TrialNational Education https://books.google.com/books?id=pRCQi9hO4-sC 1965 166 Sheila Burnford – The Incredible Journeyhttps://books.google.com/books?id=graiX5o4tMYC Children's books and their creators Anita Silvey Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1995 0395653800 12 March 2012 Morley Callaghan – A Passion in Rome John Dickson Carr – The Witch of the Low Tide: An Edwardian MelodramaJohn Dickson Carr The Witch of the Low-tide: An Edwardian Melodrama https://books.google.com/books?id=hgc5AQAAIAAJ 1961 Harper Jean Cau – The Mercy of God Henry Cecil – Daughters in Law Sid Chaplin – The Day of the Sardine James Hadley Chase – A Lotus for Miss Quon Agatha Christie Double Sin and Other Stories The Pale Horse A. J. Cronin – The Judas TreeO'Mahony S 2012 AJ Cronin and The Citadel J R Coll Physicians Edinb 22 2 172–8 10.4997/JRCPE.2012.218 22693705 Cecil Day-Lewis – The Worm of Death L. Sprague de Camp – The Dragon of the Ishtar GateLaughlin Charlotte Daniel J. H. Levack De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography San Francisco Underwood/Miller 1983 50 R. F. Delderfield – Stop at a WinnerSanford Sternlicht R.F. Delderfield Twayne Publishers 1988 67 August Derleth – The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Dorothy Dunnett – The Game of Kings Cyprian Ekwensi – Jagua Nana Ian Fleming – Thunderball (based on screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the author) Gabriel García Márquez – No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba)http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_timeline.html Garcia Marquez - Timeline Themodernword.com 4 February 2026 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120321031345/http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_timeline.html 2012-03-21 Richard Gordon – Doctor on Toast Edward Gorey (as Ogdred Weary) – The Curious Sofa. A Pornographic Tale Winston Graham – Marnie Vasily Grossman – Everything Flows (Все течет; first published 1989) Harry Harrison – The Stainless Steel Rat Robert A. Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Landhttps://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/ Books that Shaped America 2012 Library of Congress https://web.archive.org/web/20170909031652/http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/ 9 September 2017 11 September 2017 Joseph Heller – Catch-22Eller Jonathan R. The Story of Catch-22 2011 Simon & Schuster Catch-22 978-1451626650 469 50th anniversary Patricia Highsmith – This Sweet SicknessBenjamin Mangrum Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism https://books.google.com/books?id=ozRtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 November 2018 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-090937-6 87 Richard Hughes -The Fox in the AtticRandall Stevenson A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-century Novel in Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=Ul-8hrkUzR4C&pg=PA91 1993 University Press of Kentucky 0-8131-0823-3 91 Michael Innes – Silence Observed James Kennaway – Household Ghosts James Kennaway Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus: A James Kennaway Omnibus https://books.google.com/books?id=-zJ1SXPKk3IC&pg=PR1 1 July 2010 Canongate Books 978-1-84767-494-4 1 Ismith Khan – The Jumbie Bird Margaret Laurence – The Stone AngelSharon Rose Wilson Margaret Atwood's fairy-tale sexual politics https://books.google.com/books?id=ZI_VKA9_aLcC&pg=PA354 1993 Univ. Press of Mississippi 978-1-61703-424-4 354 John le Carré – Call for the DeadMorrison, Jago, and Alan Burton. "Secrets, leaks and the novel: Writers, British intelligence and the public sphere after World War Two." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik [AAA], vol. 48, no. 1, June 2023, pp. 71 Stanisław Lem – Solaris Audrey Erskine Lindop – The Way to the LanternThe Bookmark https://books.google.com/books?id=9ddKAQAAMAAJ 1961 New York State Library 131 H. P. Lovecraft – The Shunned House Ross Macdonald – The Wycherly Woman Compton Mackenzie – Mezzotint Gladys Mitchell – The Nodding Canaries Iris Murdoch – A Severed HeadRussell Kirk Modern Age https://books.google.com/books?id=6BdnAAAAMAAJ 1980 Foundation for Foreign Affairs 74 V. S. Naipaul – A House for Mr. BiswasAnthony Boxill V.S. Naipaul's Fiction: In Quest of The Enemy https://books.google.com/books?id=L_JyAAAAMAAJ 1983 York Press 978-0-919966-34-5 7 R. K. Narayan – The Man-Eater of Malgudi Juan Carlos Onetti – El astillero (The Shipyard)Dr. Paul Jordan The Author in the Office: Narrative Writing in Twentieth-century Argentina and Uruguay https://books.google.com/books?id=cUFevZmFncAC&pg=PA24 2006 Tamesis Books 978-1-85566-126-4 24 Walker Percy – The Moviegoer Emeric Pressburger – Killing a Mouse on Sunday Caradog Prichard – Un Nos Ola Leuad (One Moonlit Night)Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=iA4iAQAAIAAJ 2001 The Society 214 Harold Robbins – The Carpetbaggers J. D. Salinger – Franny and Zooey Leonardo Sciascia – Il giorno della civetta Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMichael B. Snyder Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender https://books.google.com/books?id=U_tZM1mhQPMC&pg=PA240 2003 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-31346-2 240 Howard Spring – I Met a Lady John Steinbeck – The Winter of Our Discontent Irving Stone – The Agony and the Ecstasy Rex Stout – The Final Deduction Theodore Sturgeon – Some of Your Blood Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) – The Diary of a Mad Old Man (瘋癲老人日記)H. Paul Varley Japanese Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=vPNxAAAAMAAJ 1984 University of Hawaii Press 978-0-8248-0927-0 248 Leon Uris – Mila 18 Rose Valland – Le Front de l'art H. Russell Wakefield – Strayers from Sheol Edward Lewis Wallant – The Pawnbroker Evelyn Waugh – Unconditional Surrender Angus Wilson – The Old Men at the Zoo Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road Children and young people Rev. W. Awdry – Branch Line Engines (sixteenth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Roald Dahl – James and the Giant Peach Barbara C. Freeman – Two-Thumb Tom Rumer Godden – Miss Happiness and Miss Flower René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo – Asterix the Gaul (Astérix le Gaulois) Maria Gripe – Josephine Norton Juster – The Phantom TollboothJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Reports of the President and of the Treasurer https://books.google.com/books?id=zpDWAAAAMAAJ 1969 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 184 Bill Peet – Huge Harold Kin Platt – The Blue Man Wilson Rawls – Where the Red Fern Grows George Selden – The Cricket in Times Square (first in an unnamed sequence of seven books) Dr. Seuss – The Sneetches and Other Stories Elizabeth George Speare – The Bronze Bow John Rowe Townsend – Gumble's Yard Tomi Ungerer – The Three Robbers Drama John Barton – The Hollow Crown (anthology) Samuel Beckett Happy Days Rough for Radio IC. J. Ackerley S. E. Gontarski The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett Faber and Faber 2006 489 Rough for Radio II Emilio Carballido – Un pequeño día de ira Spiro Çomora – Karnavalet e Korçës (Carnival at Korçë) Henry Denker – A Far Country Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Physicists (Die Physiker) Max Frisch – Andorra Jean Genet – The Screens (Les Paravents) Girish Karnad – Yayati Heiner Müller – Die Umsiedlerin (The Resettler Woman) Tom Murphy – A Whistle in the Dark John Osborne – Luther Neil Simon – Come Blow Your Horn John Whiting – The Devils Tennessee Williams – The Night of the Iguana Wu Han (as Liu Mianzhi) – Hai Rui Dismissed from Office (海瑞罢官, Hǎi Ruì bà guān, published) Poetry 1961 in poetry Non-fiction Alison Adburgham – A Punch History of Manners and Modes, 1841–1940 The Artists' & Writers' Cookbook – with recipes from 150 famous writers and artistsPopova Maria Maria Popova The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook: A Rare 1961 Treasure Trove of Unusual Recipes and Creative Wit https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/04/17/the-artists-writers-cookbook-1961/ The Marginalian 17 April 2013 Wayne C. Booth – The Rhetoric of Fiction L. Sprague de Camp The Heroic Age of American Invention Man and Power: The Story of Power from the Pyramids to the Atomic Age E. H. Carr – What Is History?What is history? book review: E. H. Carr, a critical appraisal https://archives.history.ac.uk/history-in-focus/Whatishistory/munslow4.html 2024-05-30 archives.history.ac.uk Frantz Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth (Les Damnés de la Terre) Fritz Fischer – Griff nach der Weltmacht: Die Kriegzielpolitik des kaiserlichen Deutschland 1914–1918Christian Haase Pragmatic Peacemakers: Institutes of International Affairs and the Liberalization of West Germany 1945-73 https://books.google.com/books?id=S64rAQAAIAAJ 2007 Wissner-Verlag 978-3-89639-603-7 198 Georges Friedmann – The Anatomy of Work (English translation)Edmund Byrne Work, Inc.: A Philosophical Inquiry https://books.google.com/books?id=fPFpN5dHvsgC&pg=PA297 11 March 1992 Temple University Press 978-0-87722-957-5 297 Ernest K. Gann – Fate Is the Hunter Jane Jacobs – The Death and Life of Great American Cities Theodora Kroeber – Ishi in Two Worlds R. D. Laing – The Self and OthersR. Gregory The Oxford Companion to the Mind 1987 417–8 Louis Nizer – My Life in Court Karl Popper – The Poverty of Historicism Anant Priolkar – The Goa Inquisition Maxime Rodinson – Muhammad Colin Turnbull – The Forest People Webster's Third New International Dictionaryhttps://www.neh.gov/humanities/2009/julyaugust/feature/ain%E2%80%99t-the-truth Ain't That the Truth: Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language Skinner David David Skinner (journalist) July–August 2009 Humanities magazine 30 4 National Endowment for the Humanities 2014-09-14 Theodore H. White – The Making of the President 1960 Raymond Williams – The Long Revolution Peter Wessel Zapffe – Indføring i litterær dramaturgi (Introduction to literary dramaturgy) Births January 8 – Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic crime novelisthttps://bokmenntaborgin.is/en/literature-web/author/arnaldur-indridason Arnaldur Indriðason Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature 29 January 2019 5 August 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200805150532/https://bokmenntaborgin.is/en/literature-web/author/arnaldur-indridason dead January 11 – Jasper Fforde, English fantasy novelisthttps://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/11/UPI-Almanac-for-Saturday-Jan-11-2020/6871578622259/ UPI Almanac for Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020 United Press International 11 January 2020 26 June 2020 4 February 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200204011502/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/11/UPI-Almanac-for-Saturday-Jan-11-2020/6871578622259/ live …author Jasper Fforde in 1961 (age 59) January 12 – Simon Russell Beale, Malaysian-born English Shakespearean actorRichard Burt Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=FRIrAQAAIAAJ 2007 Greenwood Press 978-0-313-33118-3 745 January 28 – Arnaldur Indridason, Icelandic writerContemporary Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=Df7iAAAAMAAJ August 2006 Cengage Gale 978-0-7876-7876-0 215 May 17 – Han Dong, Chinese poet and novelist May 19 – Jennifer Armstrong, American children's author May 22 – Andrea Dunbar, English playwright (died 1990)https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/andrea-dunbar-estate Andrea Dunbar (Estate) United Agents 21 February 2026 June 9 – Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer and playwright https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/112161/Aaron-Sorkin/biography Aaron Sorkin biography Born: June 9, 1961 June 2, 2012 March 11, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140311081819/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/112161/Aaron-Sorkin/biography The New York Times Jason Buchanan 2014 dead June 23 – David Leavitt, American novelist June 24 – Rebecca Solnit, American writer and essayist July 7 – Eric Jerome Dickey, American writer July 10 – Carol Anne Davis, Scottish crime writer July 18 – M. J. Alexander, American author and photographer July – Richard Flanagan, Australian novelist August 20 – Greg Egan, Australian science fiction author September 13 – Tom Holt, English historical and comic novelist and poet September 26 – Will Self, English novelist, political commentator and broadcaster October 5 – Sílvia Soler, Catalan writer and journalist October 29 – Michael Gurr, Australian playwright (died 2017)February 2026 November 9 – Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist November 14 – Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (died 2007)February 2026 November 18 – Steven Moffat, Scottish TV writer November 24 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist November – Sarah Holland, English novelist, actress and singer December 8 – Ann Coulter, American authorBenjamin F. Shearer Home Front Heroes [Three Volumes] https://books.google.com/books?id=IzBxCP9QUo0C&pg=PA187 September 2006 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-04705-3 187 November 20 – David Mills, American journalist and TV writer (died 2010) December 23 – Ezzat el Kamhawi, Egyptian novelist and journalist December 30 – Douglas Coupland, Canadian authorDouglas Coupland Shampoo Planet https://books.google.com/books?id=EWkihiil8OgC&pg=PA309 May 1993 Simon and Schuster 978-0-671-75506-5 309 unknown date – Winsome Pinnock, British playwright Deaths January 10 – Dashiell Hammett, American crime writer and screenwriter (lung cancer, born 1894)Hellman, Lilian, Introduction to posthumous Hammett, Dashiell, The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Houghton Mifflin: 1962). January 21 – Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric-Louis Sauser), Swiss novelist and poet (born 1887)Collector's Quest https://books.google.com/books?id=40MYmHteQNoC 1968 38 January 30 – Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (born 1893)John Arthur Garraty Mark Christopher Carnes American National Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=_espAQAAMAAJ 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-512800-0 544 February 4 – Hazel Heald, American pulp fiction writer (born 1896) March 18 – E. Arnot Robertson, English novelist (born 1903) April 9 – Oliver Onions (George Oliver), English novelist and ghost story writer (born 1873) April 22 – Joanna Cannan, English pony book writer and detective novelist (born 1896) April 30 – Jessie Redmon Fauset, American editor, writer and educator (born 1882)Carolyn Wedin Sylvander Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5JaAAAAMAAJ 1981 Whitston Publishing Company 978-0-87875-196-9 23 May 26 – William Troy, American writer and teacher (cancer, born 1903) June 2 – George S. Kaufman, American dramatist and critic (born 1889)June 3, 1961 George S. Kaufman Dies at 71 https://www.nytimes.com/1961/06/03/archives/george-s-kaufman-dies-at-71-shared-2-pulitzers-for-drama-cited-for.html The New York Times March 14, 2018 June 15 – Peyami Safa, Turkish journalist and writer (born 1899)http://www.biyografi.net/kisiayrinti.asp?kisiid=259 Biyografi Peyami Safa (1899)- (15.06.1961) tr January 14, 2013 July 1 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French novelist and pamphleteer (born 1894)Vitoux, Frédéric (1991). Céline: A Biography. New York: Paragon House. 1-55778-255-5 Pages=551-7 July 2 – Ernest Hemingway, American novelist (suicide, born 1899)Reynolds, Michael (2000). "Ernest Hemingway, 1899–1961: A Brief Biography". in Wagner-Martin, Linda (ed). A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway. New York: Oxford UP. 978-0-19-512152-0, page 16 July 12 – Mazo de la Roche, Canadian novelist (born 1879)Crowe-Grande Trish Exploring the early years of Newmarket literary icon Mazo de la Roche https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/local-news/exploring-the-early-years-of-newmarket-literary-icon-mazo-de-la-roche-2623894 4 February 2021 NewmarketToday.ca 9 August 2020 en July 17 – Olga Forsh, Russian dramatist, novelist and memoirist (born 1873) August 14 – Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (born 1893) August 18 – Leonhard Frank, German writer (died 1882) September 27 – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), American poet, novelist and memoirist (born 1886)Elaine Showalter Lea Baechler A. Walton Litz Modern American Women Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=30UkL9DTj5UC&pg=PA81 27 September 1993 Simon and Schuster 978-0-02-082025-3 81 October 19 – Mihail Sadoveanu, Romanian novelist (born 1880) November 2 – James Thurber, American humorist (born 1894)Dan Campion Peter De Vries and Surrealism https://books.google.com/books?id=nhwzd3av3z8C&pg=PA55 1995 Bucknell University Press 978-0-8387-5311-8 55 December 7 – Roussan Camille, Haitian poet and journalist (born 1912)Library of Congress. Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish Division The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape: a descriptive guide https://books.google.com/books?id=h-8oJXbBai8C 1974 Library of Congress 978-0-8444-0115-7 92 December 26 – Gertrude Minnie Faulding, English children's writer and novelist (born 1875) Awards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Lucy M. Boston, A Stranger at Green KnoweDaniel Hahn Michael Morpurgo The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=Mb66BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA249 2015 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-969514-0 249 Eric Gregory Award: Adrian Mitchell, Geoffrey Hill Formentor Prize: Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel Beckett Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Jennifer Dawson, The Ha-Ha James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: M. K. Ashby, Joseph Ashby of TysoeSouthern Observer: Southern Books and Authors, Publishing Notes, Best Sellers, Special Features https://books.google.com/books?id=uXDMBNMxgCkC 1962 90 Lorne Pierce Medal: Robertson DaviesNicholas Maes Robertson Davies: Magician of Words https://books.google.com/books?id=zJf4qfoSEiMC&pg=PA225 23 March 2009 Dundurn 978-1-77070-505-0 225 Miles Franklin Award: Patrick White, Riders in the Chariot Newbery Medal for children's literature: Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins Nobel Prize in Literature: Ivo Andrić Premio Nadal: Juan Antonio Payno, El curso Prix Goncourt: Jean Cau, La Pitié de DieuFrench News https://books.google.com/books?id=JJ0aAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 1963 Published and distributed by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy 3 Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tad Mosel, All the Way Home Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Phyllis McGinley, Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades National Book Award for Fiction: Conrad Richter, The Waters of Kronos National Book Award for Nonfiction: William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich National Book Award for Poetry: Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations References 30em External links Popular Books of 1961 at Goodreads Published 1961 Books at Goodreads 1961 Books at Goodreads