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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by
American citizens in a calendar year. Three judges, chosen annually by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation,
select five books from among the more than 300 works submitted, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country.
The winning writer and four finalists are honored at a ceremony held in Washington at the Folger
Shakespeare Library in May.
For more information see: The PEN/Faulkner Foundation
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| Year | Author | Title |
| 2007 Award Winner | Philip Roth | Everyman |
| Finalists | 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 Award Winner | E.L. Doctorow | The March |
| Finalists | Karen Fisher | A Sudden Country |
| William Henry Lewis | I Got Somebody in Staunton | |
| James Salter | Last Night | |
| Bruce Wagner | The Chrysanthemum Palace | |
| 2005 Award Winner | Ha Jin | War Trash |
| Finalists | Jerome Charyn | The Green Lantern |
| Edwidge Danticat | The Dew Breaker | |
| Marilynne Robinson | Gilead | |
| Steve Yarbrough | Prisoners of War | |
| 2004 Award Winner | John Updike | The Early Stories 1953-1975 |
| Finalists | Frederick Barthemle | Elroy Nights |
| ZZ Packer | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | |
| Caryl Phillips | A Distant Shore | |
| Tobias Wolff | Old School | |
| 2003 Award Winner | Sabina Murray | The Caprices |
| Finalists | Peter Cameron | The City of Your Final Destination |
| William Kennedy | Roscoe | |
| Victor LaValle | The Ecstatic | |
| Gilbert Sorrentino | Little Casino | |
| 2002 Award Winner | Ann Patchett | Bel Canto |
| Finalists | Karen Joy Fowler | Sister Noon |
| Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections | |
| Claire Messud | The Hunters | |
| Manil Suri | The Death of Vishnu | |
| 2001 Award Winner | Philip Roth | The Human Stain |
| Finalists | 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 Award Winner | Ha Jin | Waiting |
| Finalists | Frederick Busch | The Night Inspector |
| Ken Kalfus | PU-239 | |
| Elizabeth Strout | Amy and Isabelle | |
| Lily Tuck | Siam | |
| 1999 Award Winner | Michael Cunningham | The Hours |
| Finalists | Russell Banks | Cloudsplitter |
| Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood Bible | |
| Brian Morton | Starting Out in the Evening | |
| Richard Selzer | The Doctor Stories | |
| 1998 Award Winner | Rafi Zabor | The Bear Comes Home |
| Finalists | Donald Antrim | The Hundred Brothers |
| Rilla Askew | The Mercy Seat | |
| Mary Gaitskill | Because They Wanted To | |
| Francisco Goldman | The Ordinary Seaman | |
| 1997 Award Winner | Gina Berriault | Women in their Beds |
| Finalists | Daniel Akst | St. Burl's Obituary |
| Kathleen Cambor | The Book of Mercy | |
| Ron Hansen | Atticus | |
| Jamaica Kincaid | The Autobiography of My Mother | |
| 1996 Award Winner | Richard Ford | Independence Day |
| Finalists | Madison Smart Bell | All Souls' Rising |
| William Gass | The Tunnel | |
| Claire Messud | When the World Was Steady | |
| J. Verdelle | The Good Negress | |
| 1995 Award Winner | David Guterson | Snow Falling on Cedars |
| Finalists | 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 Award Winner | Philip Roth | Operation Shylock |
| Finalists | 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 Award Winner | E. Annie Proulx | Postcards |
| Finalists | 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 Award Winner | Don DeLillo | Mao II |
| Finalists | Stephen Dixon | Frog |
| Paul Gervais | Extraordinary People | |
| Allan Gurganus | White People | |
| Bradford Morrow | The Almanac Branch | |
| 1991 Award Winner | John Edgar Wideman | Philadelphia Fire |
| Finalists | Paul Auster | The Music of Chance |
| Joanne Meschery | A Gentleman's Guide to the Frontier | |
| Steven Millhauser | The Barnum Museum | |
| Joanna Scott | Arrogance | |
| 1990 Award Winner | E. L. Doctorow | Billy Bathgate |
| Finalists | Russell Banks | Affliction |
| Molly Gloss | The Jump-Off Creek | |
| Josephine Jacobsen | On the Island | |
| Lynne Sharon Schwartz | Leaving Brooklyn | |
| 1989 Award Winner | James Salter | Dusk |
| Finalists | Mary McGarry Morris | Vanished |
| Thomas Savage | The Corner of Rife and Pacific | |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | The Death of Methuselah | |
| 1988 Award Winner | T. Coraghessan Boyle | World's End |
| Finalists | Richard Bausch | Spirits |
| Alice McDermott | That Night | |
| Cynthia Ozick | The Messiah of Stockholm | |
| Lawrence Thornton | Imagining Argentina | |
| 1987 Award Winner | Richard Wiley | Soldiers in Hiding |
| Finalists | Richard Ford | The Sportswriter |
| Charles Johnson | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | |
| Janet Kauffman | Collaborators | |
| Maureen Howard | Expensive Habits | |
| 1986 Award Winner | Peter Taylor | The Old Forest |
| Finalists | 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 Award Winner | Tobias Wolff | The Barracks Thief |
| Finalists | Harriet Doerr | Stones for Ibarra |
| Donald Hays | The Dixie Association | |
| David Leavitt | Family Dancing | |
| James Purdy | On Glory's Course | |
| 1984 Award Winner | John Edgar Wideman | Sent for You Yesterday |
| Finalists | Ron Hansen | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford |
| William Kennedy | Ironweed | |
| Jamaica Kincaid | At the Bottom of the River | |
| Bernard Malamud | The Stories of Bernard Malamud | |
| Cynthia Ozick | The Cannibal Galaxy | |
| 1983 Award Winner | Toby Olson | Seaview |
| Finalists | 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 Award Winner | David Bradley | The Chaneysville Incident |
| Finalists | 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 Award Winner | Walter Abish | How German Is It? |
| Finalists | Shirley Hazzard | The Transit of Venus |
| Walker Percy | The Second Coming | |
| Gilbert Sorrentino | Aberration of Starlight | |
| John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces |