FILE - This May 16, 2008 file photo shows author Louise Erdrich at her store BirchBark Books in Minneapolis. Erdrich, 58, won a National Book Award Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, for her story, "The Round House" the second of a planned trilogy, about an Ojibwe boy and his quest to avenge his mother's rape. Erdrich, who's part Ojibwe, spoke in her tribal tongue and then switched to English as she dedicated her fiction award to "the grace and endurance of native people." (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, file)
-
FILE - This May 16, 2008 file photo shows author Louise Erdrich at her store BirchBark Books in Minneapolis. Erdrich, 58, won a National Book Award Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, for her story, "The Round House" the second of a planned trilogy, about an Ojibwe boy and his quest to avenge his mother's rape. Erdrich, who's part Ojibwe, spoke in her tribal tongue and then switched to English as she dedicated her fiction award to "the grace and endurance of native people." (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, file)
-
FILE - In this Friday, May 16, 2008, file photo, author Louise Erdrich reflects on growing up in North Dakota and her new book "The Plague of Doves" at her store BirchBark Books in Minneapolis. Louise Erdrich is more than this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction. She's a bookstore owner and has some ideas for what customers might pick up as holiday gifts. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
-
This undated photo made available by Little, Brown and Co. shows the cover of "The Casual Vacancy," J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults. Ann Patchett, who founded Parnassus Books in Nashville, says she has been recommends J.K. Rowling's first grownup novel, "The Casual Vacancy," as a holiday gift in 2012. (AP Photo/Little, Brown and Company)
-
This book cover image released by Hyperion shows "The Rolling Stones 50," by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood. In celebration of the band's 50th anniversary, the book offers stark commentary from the Stones to go with tour photos, candids and close-ups. Barnes & Noble is reccomending "The Rolling Stones 50" as a holiday gift for 2012. (AP Photo/Hyperion)
-
FILE - This 1954 file photo released by Paramount Pictures shows Jimmy Stewart, left, and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's film, "Rear Window." A producing team has won the theatrical stage rights to “Rear Window,” the noir tale that Alfred Hitchcock made into a classic film. Producer Charlie Lyons, director Jay Russell and actor Tim Guinee announced Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, that their two-year hunt for the rights have been successful and they’re hoping to mount the show on Broadway. The film version, starring Stewart and Kelly, tells the story of a wheelchair-bound witness to a possible murder. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, file)
-
FILE - This March 19, 2011 file photo shows Rachael Ray introducing a band at her Feedback side party during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The author and Emmy-winning chef is getting ready for next month's South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, where she again will be hosting all-day music performances, with more than a dozen bands. One of those bands, The Cringe, is led by her husband, John Cusimano. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, file)
-
FILE - This March 14, 2012 file photo shows former Spice Girls band member Melanie Brown at "The Hunger Games" film premiere at the O2 arena in London. NBC says former Spice Girl Melanie Brown is joining the judges' panel of "America's Got Talent." Brown, also known as Scary Spice during her time with the 1990s pop group, will take her seat alongside Howie Mandel and Howard Stern when the variety competition show returns for its eighth season this summer on NBC.(AP Photo/Jonathan Short)
-
This booking photo released by the Darien, Conn., Police Department shows WCBS-TV anchor Rob Morrison arrested Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, at his home in Darien. Police said he fought with his wife and then choked her at their home and threatened her even after he was arrested. Morrison was scheduled to be in court Tuesday on charges of strangulation, threatening and disorderly conduct. (AP Photo/Darien Police Department)
-
WCBS Television anchorman Rob Morrison, left, listens as his attorney Robert Skovgaard checks a cell phone during his arraignment in Superior Court on Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013 in Stamford, Conn. Morrison was arrested Monday night on charges of attacking his wife, Ashley Morrison, at their Connecticut home. He is charged with strangulation, threatening and disorderly conduct and ordered to to stay 100 yards away from his wife except when they're both at work. Ashley Morrison works for "CBS Moneywatch." (AP Photo/New York Daily News, David Handschuh, Pool)
-
In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photo, curator Bob Bostock, a former Richard Nixon aide who designed the original Watergate exhibit, points at the famous Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev picture, inside a re-creation of the 1950s-era modern American kitchen exhibited in Moscow where Nixon and Khrushchev had their fiery exchange debating the merits of freedom versus communism, on display at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Watergate novel nominated for fiction prize
NEW YORK (
AP) —
Thomas Mallon's novel about the scandal that brought down
Richard Nixon is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.
Published by Random House Inc., Mallon's "Watergate" was among five nominees for the $15,000 award. Three other books announced Wednesday were published by smaller presses, as judges bypassed such high-profile works of fiction as Louise Erdrich's "The Round House" and Junot Diaz's "This Is How You Lose Her."
Two finalists were released by Coffee House Press: Laird Hunt's "Kind One" and T. Geronimo's "Hold It 'Til It Hurts." The other nominees were Amelia Gray's "Threats," from Farrar, Straus & Giroux; and Benjamin Alire Saenz's story collection "Everything Begins & Ends," published by Cinco Puntos Press.
Previous winners of the PEN/Faulkner prize include Philip Roth and John Updike.
Tags:
ap, richard nixon, william faulkner, junot diaz, philip roth, john updike, louise erdrich, random house inc., arts_entertainment, threats, judges, scandal, finalist, finalists, nominees, new york, ends, high-profile works, previous winners, story collection, american novelists, begins, short story, farrar, national book critics circle award, giroux, cinco puntos press, benjamin alire saenz, coffee house press, pen/faulkner award, pen/faulkner prize, watergate novel, thomas mallon, fiction prize, t. geronimo, laird hunt, smaller presses, amelia gray, straus, pen/faulkner award for fiction
Print Page
