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Faulkner Award
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living Americans, Green Card holders or permanent residents. The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US$5000. Judges read citations for each of the finalists' works at the presentation ceremony in Washington, D.C. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country." The award was first given in 1981. Mary Lee Settle was one of the founders of the PEN/Faulkner Award following the controversy at the 1979 National Book Award, when PEN America voted for a boycott on the grounds that the award had become too commercial. PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References External linksPEN/Faulkner Foundation {{DEFAULTSORT:PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction William Faulkner PEN/Faulkner Foundation awards American fiction awards Awards established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with fact, history, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, fiction refers to literature, written narratives in prose often specifically novels, novellas, and short story, short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any Media (communication), medium, including not just writings but also drama, live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games. Definition and theory Typically, the fictionality of a work is publicly expressed, so the audience expects a work of fiction to deviate to a greater or lesser degree from the real world, rather than presenting for instance only factually accurate portrayals or character (arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonesome Dove
''Lonesome Dove'' is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the ''Lonesome Dove'' series and the third installment in the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which won both critical and popular acclaim. McMurtry went on to write a sequel, '' Streets of Laredo'' (1993), and two prequels, '' Dead Man's Walk'' (1995) and '' Comanche Moon'' (1997), all of which were also adapted as TV series. Premise The novel, set in the waning days of the Old West, centers on the relationships between several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana. The novel contains themes including old age, death, unrequited love, and friendship. Plot In the late 1870s, Captain Woodrow F. Call and Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae, two famous retired Texas Rangers, run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelf Awareness
Shelf Awareness is an American publishing company that produces two e-zines focused on bookselling, books, and book reviews: ''Shelf Awareness'' is aimed at general consumers, while ''Shelf Awareness Pro'' caters for industry professionals. History The company was co-founded by editor/journalist John Mutter (editor-in-chief) and Jenn Risko (publisher) in 2005 to produce a trade magazine for booksellers. In 2007, Shelf Awareness had 10,000 subscribers in the book industry subscribers. In partnership with ''Unshelved'', which was read by 35,000 librarians and others, the company started running a new service for publishers to communicate with their readers, via a searchable online database of "drop-in" titles (also known as crash or add-in titles). In 2011, Shelf Awareness launched a consumer book review version called ''Shelf Awareness for Readers''. The company hired Marilyn Dahl as the review editor and Jennifer Brown as the children's literature editor. In November of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independence Day (Ford Novel)
''Independence Day'' is a 1995 novel by Richard Ford and the sequel to Ford's 1986 novel '' The Sportswriter''. This novel is the second in what is now a five-part series, the first being '' The Sportswriter''. It was followed by '' The Lay of the Land'' (2006), '' Let Me Be Frank With You'' (2014) ''and Be Mine'' (2023). ''Independence Day'' won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1996, becoming the first novel ever to win both awards in a single year. Plot summary The novel follows Frank Bascombe, a New Jersey real estate agent (and ex-sportswriter), through the titular holiday weekend as he visits his ex-wife, his troubled son, his current lover, the tenants of one of his properties, and some clients of his who have been having trouble finding the perfect house. It focuses in particular on a car trip with his son to the Basketball and Baseball Halls of Fame. Similar in form and common themes to John Updike's ''Rabbit'' novels, ''Independence Day'' is a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stones From The River
''Stones from the River'' is the third-person omniscient 1994 novel by Ursula Hegi which chronicles 40 years of the life of Trudi, a woman with dwarfism, as she navigates the silently complicit, violent, and redemptive era of World War I and II Germany in the fictional town of Burgdorf. Ursula Hegi's status as a German immigrant to America played a key role in shaping ''Stones from the River.'' ''Stones from the River'' received multiple accolades and became a bestseller in 1997 when selected for Oprah's Book Club. Plot The novel begins when Trudi Montag, protagonist, is born to Gertrude Montag, a mentally-tormented woman, and to Leo Montag, a newly-returned veteran of the First World War who runs a pay-library in the fictional river-side town of Burgdorf on July 23, 1915. Until Trudi is 3 months of age, Gertrude rejects Trudi and refuses to look at or touch her. She believes her own sin has caused her daughter to be born a zwerg, or dwarf, and retreats into insanity to avoid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow Falling On Cedars
''Snow Falling on Cedars'' is a 1994 novel by David Guterson. Guterson, a teacher, wrote the book in the early morning hours over ten years, until eventually quitting his job to write full-time, following its success. Plot Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, just north of Puget Sound, in the state of Washington in 1954, the plot revolves around a murder case in which Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American, is accused of killing Carl Heine, a respected fisherman in the close-knit community. Much of the story is told in flashbacks explaining the interaction of the various characters over the prior decades. Carl's body had been pulled from the sea, trapped in his own net, on September 16, 1954. His water-damaged watch had stopped at 1:47. The trial, held in December 1954 during a snowstorm that grips the entire island, occurs in the midst of deep anti-Japanese sentiments following World War II. Covering the case is the editor of the town's one-man n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Shylock
''Operation Shylock: A Confession'' is a 1993 novel by American novelist Philip Roth. Plot The novel follows narrator "Philip Roth" on a journey to Israel, where he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk and becomes involved in an intelligence mission—the "Operation Shylock" of the title. While in Israel, the narrator seeks out an impersonator who has appropriated his identity. This man has Roth's facial features, goes by the same name, and uses Roth's status as a celebrity author to spread " Diasporism", a counter-Zionist ideology advocating the return, to Europe, of all formerly European Jews who became Israelis in order to avert a second Holocaust by Arab countries. The ensuing struggle between this doppelgänger-like stranger and "Roth", played against the backdrop of the Demjanjuk trial and the First Intifada, constitutes the book's primary storyline. Roth becomes romantically involved with Jinx Posseski, his doppelgänger's lover and partner in crim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postcards (novel)
''Postcards'' is E. Annie Proulx's 1992 novel about the life and travels of Loyal Blood across the American West. ''Postcards'' has been likened by David Bradley to a Great American Novel. It is the predecessor to Proulx's award-winning ''The Shipping News''. ''Postcards'' cuts between stories of Loyal's travels and the stories of his family back in Vermont, to whom he sends irregular postcards about his life and experiences. Loyal never leaves a return address, so is unable to hear back from his family and therefore misses all the news from home, including the death of his father and mother, the sale of the family farm, and the marriage of his sister to a virtual stranger. The novel's content provides a personal view of America in the 20th Century, dealing with themes of war, industrialization, conservation and the American Dream. It also provides a glimpse into the way a family unit is slowly destroyed due to this arrival of a new age. Fate is one of the chief themes of the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White People (short Story Collection)
''White People'' is a 1991 short story collection by author Allan Gurganus Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work, which includes ''Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All'' and '' Local Souls'', is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina. Biography Gurgan .... Overview A collection of eleven short stories about people white and not white from the modern Southern United States. Main character's name is Jerry. References English-language novels Novels about race and ethnicity Works about White Americans 1991 short story collections American short story collections Alfred A. Knopf books PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction–winning works Southern United States in fiction {{1990s-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mao II
''Mao II'', published in 1991, is Don DeLillo's tenth novel. The book tells the story of a novelist, struggling to finish a novel, who travels to Lebanon to assist a writer being held hostage. The title is derived from a series of Andy Warhol silkscreen prints depicting Mao Zedong. DeLillo dedicated the book to his friend Gordon Lish. Major themes of the book include crowds and the effects of political terrorism. ''Mao II'' received positive reviews from critics and won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992. Plot summary A reclusive novelist named Bill Gray works endlessly on a novel which he chooses not to finish. He has chosen a life secluded from the outside world in order to try to keep his writing pure. He, along with his assistant Scott, believes that something is lost once a mass audience reads the work. Scott would prefer Bill didn't publish the book for fear that the mass-production of the work will destroy the "real" Bill. Bill has a dalliance with Scott's partner Karen Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia Fire
The Fire was a Women's Professional Lacrosse League (WPLL) professional women's field lacrosse team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They have played in the WPLL since the 2018 season. In the 2018 season, the five teams in the WPLL played in a barnstorming format, with all five teams playing at a single venue. After cancelling the 2020 season in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ..., the league announced on August 6, 2020, that it would be closing down. Roster 2018 season References {{Philadelphia Sports Women's Professional Lacrosse League Women's lacrosse teams in the United States Lacrosse teams in Pennsylvania Sports clubs and teams in Philadelphia Lacrosse clubs established in 2018 2018 establishments in Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bathgate
''Billy Bathgate'' is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990, the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 1990 William Dean Howells Medal, and was the runner-up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize References External links {{E. L. Doctorow 1989 American novels American crime novels Novels set in the Bronx < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
