PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Winners 1996–2007

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