The Washington Post reports today that the PEN/Faulkner Foundation will announce later today that E.L. Doctorow has won its 2006 fiction award for his novel "The March." It is the second PEN/Faulkner award for Doctorow, who won in 1990 for "Billy Bathgate."
The other finalists were:
- William Henry Lewis for "I Got Somebody in Staunton," a story collection examining African American lives.
- Karen Fisher for her first book, "A Sudden Country," a tale of America's 19th-century western migration.
- Bruce Wagner for his novel "The Chrysanthemum Palace."
- James Salter for his story collection "Last Night."
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