PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, established in 1980, annually honors an American fiction writer with a $15,000 prize. Located at Washington D.C.'s Folger Shakespeare Library, the award is funded by grants, contributions, special events and benefit readings.

1981

Walter Abish, How German Is It?

1982

David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident

1983

Toby Olson, Seaview

1984

John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday

1985

Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief

1986

Peter Taylor, The Old Forest

1987

Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding

1988

T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End

1989

James Salter, Dusk

1990

E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate

1991

John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire

1992

Don Delillo, Mao II

1993

E. Annie Proulx, Postcards

1994

Philip Roth, Operation Shylock

1995

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

1996

Richard Ford, Independence Day

1997

Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds

1998

Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home

1999

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

2000

Ha Jin, Waiting

2001

Philip Roth, The Human Stain

2002

Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

2003

Sabina Murray, The Caprices

2004

John Updike, The Early Stories

2005

Ha Jin, War Trash

2006

E. L. Doctorow, The March

2007

Philip Roth, Everyman

2008

Kate Christensen, The Great Man

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