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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the author of the best American work of fiction that year. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. The foundation brings the winner and runners-up to Washington, D.C. to...
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David Bradley
David H. Bradley (born September 7, 1950 in Bedford, Pennsylvania) is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon and author of South Street and the The Chaneysville Incident, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982.
The...
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Toby Olson
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Tobias Wolff
Tobias Jonathan von Ansell-Wolff, III (born June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American author.
He is best known for his short stories and his memoirs, although he has written two novels (most recently Old School).
Wolff is the Ward W. and...
Peter Taylor
Peter Hillsman Taylor (January 8, 1917 – November 2, 1994) was an American short-story writer and novelist.
Born to a wealthy Nashville family in Trenton, Tennessee, Taylor spent his early childhood between in Nashville and St. Louis until his...
Richard Wiley
Richard Wiley (born 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer whose first novel, Soldiers In Hiding, won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has published five other novels and a number of short stories (see "Works" below).
Wiley...
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Walter Abish
Walter Abish (born December 24, 1931) is an Austrian-American author of experimental novels and short stories.
Abish was born in Vienna, Austria. At a young age, his family fled from the Nazis, traveling first to Italy and Nice before settling in...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle
T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, born on December 2, 1948) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the mid 1970s, he has published twelve novels and more than 60 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his...
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James Salter
James Salter (born June 10, 1925, New York City) is an American writer.
Salter was born James A. Horowitz, the son of a moderately wealthy entrepreneur. He entered West Point in 1942 when class sizes were doubled and the curriculum shortened by war...
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit...
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives near New York City.
DeLillo was born in the Bronx in New York City, a...
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941, in Washington, DC) is an American writer.
Wideman was born on June 14, 1941. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and much of his writing is set there, especially in the Homewood neighborhood of the...
E. Annie Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx (pronounced /ˈpruː/) (born August 22, 1935) is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994, and was made into a...
David Guterson
David Guterson (pronounced Gət-ər-sən) (born May 4, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist.
Born May 4, 1956, in Seattle, Guterson attended public schools, later attending the University of Washington,...
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Richard Ford
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection...
Gina Berriault
Gina Berriault (January 1, 1926 – July 15, 1999), was an American novelist and short story writer.
Berriault was born in Long Beach, California to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was a freelance writer and Berriault took her inspiration...
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 story collection Goodbye, Columbus, and has since become one of the most honored authors of his generation: Roth's books have twice been awarded the...
Rafi Zabor
Rafi Zabor (born Joel Zaborovsky, August 22, 1946) is a Brooklyn, New York music journalist- and musician-turned-novelist. He received the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his first novel, The Bear Comes Home, which follows an alto...
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Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.
Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew...
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Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963 ) is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include Run, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, and The Magician...
Sabina Murray
Sabina Murray (born in 1968) is an award-winning Filipina American screenwriter, and a novelist currently a Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
The daughter of an American father and a...
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Ha Jin
Jīn Xuěfēi (Simplified Chinese: 金雪飞; Traditional Chinese: 金雪飛; born February 21, 1956) is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). He was born in Liaoning, China. “Ha” comes from his favorite city, Harbin. In 1984, he...
E. L. Doctorow
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is an American author.
Edgar Lawrence ("E.L.") Doctorow was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent. He attended city...
Kate Christensen
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Joseph O'Neill
Joseph O'Neill (born 1964 in Cork, Ireland) is a novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
O'Neill, who has half-Irish and half-Turkish ancestry, was born in Cork Ireland, in...
