PEN/Faulkner Award Winners
Several fiction authors read from their works at an award dinner sponsored by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. The theme for the readings was “A… read more
Several fiction authors read from their works at an award dinner sponsored by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. The theme for the readings was “A Lesson.” Participating authors were Alice Adams, “A Southern Exposure” & “Second Chances", Richard Bausch, "Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America", and ” All the Ships at Sea", William Gass, “Finding A Form", & "The Habitations of the Word", Francisco Goldman, "The Ship Visitor", & "The Long Night of White Chickens", Mary Gordon, "The Rest of Life", and "Final Payments", Susan Isaacs, "Lily White", & "Compromising Positions", Gish Jen, "Mona in the Promised Land", & "Typical American", Ward Just, "Echo House", & "Military Men", Robert MacNeil, "Wordstruck", & "The Right Place at the Right Time", Jill McCorkle, "Carolina Moon” & “Trending To Virginia", E Ethelbert Miller, "First Love” & “Where the Love Poems for Dictators", Faye Moskowitz, "And the Bridge is Love", & ” a Leak in the Heart", Lynne Sharon Schwartz, "The Fatigue Artist", & "Leaving Brookly close
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- William Gass
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Mary Gordon Author
- Susan Isaacs
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Gish Jen Author
- Ward Just Author
- Jill McCorkle
- E. Ethelbert Miller
- Faye Moskowitz
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Deborah F. Tannen
- Christopher Tilghman
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Francisco Goldman Author
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