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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Winners 1981–1995

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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