PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners and finalists
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Each year, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction honors the year's best published works of fiction by American citizens. The following list identifies winners in bold.
2010s
2014
- Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles
- Percival Everett, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
- Joan Silber, Fools
- Valerie Trueblood, Search Party: Stories of Rescue
2013
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
- Amelia Gray, Threats
- Laird Hunt, Kind One
- T. Geronimo Johnson, Hold It 'Til It Hurts
- Thomas Mallon, Watergate
2012
- Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
- Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin
- Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmerelda: Nine Stories
- Anita Desai, The Artist of Disappearance
- Steven Millhauser, We Others: New and Selected Stories
2011
- Deborah Eisenberg, The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
- Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Good Squad
- Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule
- Eric Puchner, Model Home
- Brad Watson, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
2010
- Sherman Alexie, War Dances
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
- Lorraine Lopéz, Homicide Survivors Picnic
- Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
- Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor
2000s
2009
- Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Ms. Hempel Chronicles
- Susan Choi, A Person of Interest
- Richard Price, Lush Life
- Ron Rash, Serena
2008
- Kate Christensen, The Great Man
- Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
- David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk
- T.M. McNally, The Gateway: Stories
- Ron Rash, Chemistry and Other Stories
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 Barthelme, 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 And Other Russian Fantasies
- Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle
- Lily Tuck, Siam, or the Woman or Shot a Man
1990s
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 Barriault, Women in Their Beds
- Daniel Akst, St. Burl's Obiturary
- 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
- A.J. Verdelle, The Good Negress
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
1980s
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 and Other Stories
- 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 Hayes, The Dixie Association
- David Leavitt, Family Dancing
- James Purdy, On Glory's Courses
1984
- John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
- Ron Hansen, The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford
- William Kennedy, Ironweed
- Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River
- Bernard Malamud, The Stories
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