The PEN/Faulkner Award
The PEN/Faulkner award is conferred annually for the best work of fiction by an American author.

2004

Winner
The Early Stories, by John Updike

Finalists
Elroy Nights, by Frederick Barthelme
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer
A Distant Shore, by Caryl Phillips
Old School, by Tobias Wolff

2003

Winner
The Caprices, by Sabina Murray

Finalists
The City of Your Final Destination, by Peter Cameron
Roscoe, by William Kennedy
The Ecstatic, by Victor LaValle
Little Casino, by Gilbert Sorrentino

2002

Winner
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett

Finalists
Sister Noon, by Karen Joy Fowler
The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
The Hunters, by Claire Messud
The Death of Vishnu, by Manil Suri

2001

Winner
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth

Finalists
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
Harry Gold, by Millicent Dillon
The Name of the World, by Denis Johnson 
Off Keck Road, by Mona Simpson

2000

Winner
Waiting, by Ha Jin

Finalists
The Night Inspector, by Frederick Busch
Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies : A Novella and Stories, by Ken Kalfus
Amy and Isabelle, by Elizabeth Strout
Siam : Or the Woman Who Shot a Man, by Lily Tuck

1999

Winner
The Hours, by Michael Cunningham

Finalists
Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Starting Out in the Evening, by Brian Morton
The Doctor Stories, by Richard Selzer

1998

Winner
The Bear Comes Home, by Rafi Zabor

Finalists
The Hundred Brothers, by Donald Antrim
The Mercy Seat, by Rilla Askew
Because They Wanted To, by Mary Gaitskill
The Ordinary Seaman, by Francisco Goldman

1997

Winner
Women in Their Beds, by Gina Berriault

Finalists
St. Burl's Obituary, by Daniel Akst
The Book of Mercy, by Kathleen Cambor
Atticus, by Ron Hansen
The Autobiography of My Mother, by Jamaica Kincaid

1996

Winner
Independence Day, by Richard Ford

Finalists
All Souls' Rising, by Madison Smartt Bell
The Tunnel, by William Gass
When the World Was Steady, by Claire Messud
The Good Negress, by A.J. Verdelle

1995

Winner
Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson

Finalists
The Children in the Woods, by Frederick Busch
Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi
What I Lived for, by Joyce Carol Oates
Various Antidotes, by Joanna Scott

1994

Winner
Operation Shylock, by Philip Roth

Finalists
Van Gogh's Room at Arles, by Stanley Elkin 
The Magic of Blood, by Dagoberto Gilb
Bone, by Fae Myenne Ng
Not Where I Started From, by Kate Wheeler

1993

Winner
Postcards, by E. Annie Proulx

Finalists
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, by Robert Olen Butler
The Long Night of White Chickens, by Francisco Goldman
Natural History, by Maureen Howard
Talking to the Dead, by Sylvia Watanabe
1992

Winner
Mao II, by Don Delillo

Finalists
Frog, by Stephen Dixon
Extraordinary People, by Paul Gervais
White People, by Allan Gurganus
The Almanac Branch, by Bradford Morrow

1991

Winner
Philadelphia Fire, by John Edgar Wideman

Finalists
The Music of Chance, by Paul Auster
A Gentleman's Guide to the Frontier, by Joanne Meschery 
The Barnum Museum, by Steven Millhauser
Arrogance, by Joanna Scott

1990

Winner
Billy Bathgate, by E.L. Doctorow

Finalists
Affliction, by Russell Banks 
The Jump-Off Creek, by Molly Gloss
On the Island, by Josephine Jacobsen
Leaving Brooklyn, by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

1989

Winner
Dusk and Other Stories, by James Salter

Finalists
The Tenants of Time, by Thomas Flanagan
Vanished, by Mary McGarry Morris
The Corner of Rife and Pacific, by Thomas Savage
Death of Methuselah, by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1988

Winner
World's End, by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Finalists
Spirits, by Richard Bausch 
That Night, by Alice McDermott
The Messiah of Stockholm, by Cynthia Ozick 
Imagining Argentina, by Lawrence Thornton

1987

Winner

Soldiers in Hiding, by Richard Wiley

Finalists

The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford
Expensive Habits, by Maureen Howard
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, by Charles Johnson
Collaborators, by Janet Kauffman

1986

Winner

The Old Forest, by Peter Taylor

Finalists

Carpenter's Gothic, by William Gaddis
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
The Tree of Life : A Novel, by Hugh Nissenson 
The Christmas Wife, by Helen Norris 
Later the Same Day, by Grace Paley

1985

Winner
The Barracks Thief, by Tobias Wolff

Finalists
Stones for Ibarra, by Harriet Doerr
The Dixie Association, by Donald Hays
Family Dancing, by David Leavitt 
On Glory's Course, by James Purdy

1984

Winner
Sent for You Yesterday, by John Edgar Wideman

Finalists
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, by Ron Hansen
Ironweed, by William Kennedy
At the Bottom of the River, by Jamaica Kincaid
Stories of Bernard Malamud, by Bernard Malamud 
The Cannibal Galaxy, by Cynthia Ozick 

1983

Winner
Seaview, by Toby Olson

Finalists
Grace Abounding, by Maureen Howard
Shiloh and Other Stories, by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H., by George Steiner
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, by Anne Tyler 
Birthplace : Moving into Nearness, by William S. Wilson

1982

Winner
The Chaneysville Incident, by David Bradley

Finalists
Sixty Stories, by Donald Barthelme
Take Me Back, by Richard Bausch
Ellis Island & Other Stories, by Mark Helprin
Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
A Flag for Sunrise : A Novel, by Robert Stone

1981

Winner
How German Is It?, by Walter Abish

Finalists
Transit of Venus, by Shirley Hazzard
The Second Coming, by Walker Percy
Aberration of Starlight, by Gilbert Sorrentino
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole 

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