1961

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
  1961 · Hugo Awards · Best Novel
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  1961 · Pulitzer Prize · Fiction
• Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley
  1961 · Pulitzer Prize · Poetry
• Symphony No. 7 by Walter Piston
  1961 · Pulitzer Prize · Music
• Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald
  1961 · Pulitzer Prize · Biography
• Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
  1961 · Pulitzer Prize · History
• All The Way Home by Tad Mosel
  1961 · Pulitzer Prize · Drama