Pen Faulkner Award Challenge

Pen/Faulkner Award  (15/130)

2008

Kate Christensen, The Great Man

Annie Dillard, The Maytrees

David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk

T.M. McNally, The Gateway: Stories

Ron Rash, Chemistry and Other Stories

 

2007
Philip Roth, Everyman
Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum
Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar’s Children

2006
E.L. Doctorow, The March
Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country
William Henry Lewis, I Got Somebody in Staunton
James Salter, Last Night
Bruce Wagner, The Chrysanthemum Place

2005
Ha Jin, War Trash
Jerome Charyn, The Green Lantern
Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Steve Yarbrough, Prisoners of War

2004
John Updike, The Early Stories
   1953–1975
Frederick Barthemle, Elroy Nights
ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
Tobias Wolff, Old School

2003
Sabina Murray, The Caprices
Peter Cameron, The City of Your
   Final Destination
William Kennedy, Roscoe
Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic
Gilbert Sorrentino, Little Casino

2002
Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Karen Joy Fowler, Sister Noon
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Claire Messud, The Hunters
Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

2001
Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Michael Chabon, The Amazing
   Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Millicent Dillon, Harry Gold
Denis Johnson, The Name of
   the World
Mona Simpson, Off Keck Road

2000
Ha Jin, Waiting
Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector
Ken Kalfus, PU-239
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle
Lily Tuck, Siam

1999
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter
Barbara Kingsolver, The
   Poisonwood Bible
Brian Morton, Starting Out in
   the Evening
Richard Selzer, The Doctor Stories

1998
Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home
Donald Antrim, The Hundred Brothers
Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat
Mary Gaitskill, Because They
   Wanted To
Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary
   Seaman

1997
Gina Berriault, Women in their Beds
Daniel Akst, St. Burl’s Obituary
Kathleen Cambor, The Book of Mercy
Ron Hansen, Atticus
Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography
   of My Mother

1996
Richard Ford, Independence Day
Madison Smart Bell, All Souls’ Rising
William Gass, The Tunnel
Claire Messud, When the World
   Was Steady
J. Verdelle, The Good Negress

1995
David Guterson, Snow Falling
   on Cedars
Frederich Busch, The Children in
   the Woods
Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River
Joyce Carol Oates, What I Lived For
Joanna Scott, Various Antidotes

1994
Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
Stanley Elkin, Van Gogh’s Room
   at Arles
Dagoberto Gilb, The Magic of Blood
Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
Kate Wheeler, Not Where I
   Started From

1993
E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent
   from a Strange Mountain
Francisco Goldman, The Long Night
   of White Chickens
Maureen Howard, Natural History
Sylvia Watanabe, Talking to
   the Dead

1992
Don DeLillo, Mao II
Stephen Dixon, Frog
Paul Gervais, Extraordinary People
Allan Gurganus, White People
Bradford Morrow, The
   Almanac Branch

1991
John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
Paul Auster, The Music of Chance
Joanne Meschery, A Gentleman”s
   Guide to the Frontier
Steven Millhauser, The Barnum
   Museum
Joanna Scott, Arrogance

1990
E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
Russell Banks, Affliction
Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek
Josephine Jacobsen, On the Island
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Leaving
   Brooklyn

1989
James Salter, Dusk
Mary McGarry Morris, Vanished
Thomas Savage, The Corner of Rife
   and Pacific
Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Death
   of Methuselah

1988
T. Coraghessan Boyle, World’s End
Richard Bausch, Spirits
Alice McDermott, That Night
Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah
   of Stockholm
Lawrence Thornton, Imagining
   Argentina

1987
Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Charles Johnson, The
   Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Janet Kauffman, Collaborators
Maureen Howard, Expensive Habits

1986
Peter Taylor, The Old Forest
William Gaddis, Carpenter’s Gothic
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
Hugh Nissenson, The Tree of Life
Helen Norris, The Christmas Wife
Grace Paley, Later the Same Day

1985
Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
Donald Hays, The Dixie Association
David Leavitt, Family Dancing
James Purdy, On Glory’s Courses

1984
John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
Ron Hansen, The Assasination of
   Jesse James by the Coward
   Robert Ford
William Kennedy, Ironweed
Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of
   the River
Bernard Malamud, The Stories
Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy

1983
Toby Olson, Seaview
Maureen Howard, Grace Abounding
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and
   Other Stories
George Steiner, The Portage to San
   Cristobal of A.H.
Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick
   Restaurant
William S. Wilson, Birthplace

1982
David Bradley, The
Chaneysville Incident
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Richard Bausch, Take Me Back
Mark Helprin, Ellis Island and
   Other Stories
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise

1981
Walter Abish, How German Is It?
Shirley Hazzard, The Transit
   of Venus
Walker Percy, The Second Coming
Gilbert Sorrentino, Aberration of
   Starlight
John Kennedy Toole, A
   Confederacy of Dunces

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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