1961

• Devil's Whispers, by Borden Deal (under pseudonym "Lee Borden") (Avon).
• The Moviegoer, a novel by Walker Percy (Knopf).
• The Morning and the Evening, by Joan Williams (Atheneum)
• Night Song, a novel by John Alfred Williams (Farrar. Straus).
• The Night of the Iguana, a play by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• Quintet, short stories edited by Richard Wright, who is also a contributor (Pyramid Books).
• Eight Men, short stories by Richard Wright (World).

December 28: Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams opens on Broadway at the Royale Theatre in New York.

Premiere of the film Sanctuary, based on the novels Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner.