Assuming faulkner is required, the following 240 results were found.
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to write Amy and Isabelle, which when published was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. The novel was made into a television movie starring Elisabeth Shue and produced by Oprah Winfrey's...
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by the book’s end? 5. Poppy "always tells people that her family is like the House of Agamemnon or something out of Faulkner" (45). What does she mean by this? How would you categorize her family? How does the Zane family compare with other families in...
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Dimestore (Smith)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/dimestore-smith
What did it teach her about writing? 6. What the impact did other Southern writers have on Lee's development as a writer: Faulkner, Styron, Welty and Sill. How did she begin to see her own life in Grundy, Virginia, as "stories"? 7. What role does mental...
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Whitehead's own) spend the summer in Sag Harbor, Long Island. Published in 2009, the novel was a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2010 came Zone One, a post-apocalyptic story set New York City. In 2014...
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Refugees (Nguyen)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/refugees-nguyen
First Novel Prize 2015-16 - Winner, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction) 2016 - Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Award 2016 - Finalist, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction (Author bio adapted from the author's website.) Book...
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to write Amy and Isabelle, which when published was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. The novel was made into a television movie starring Elisabeth Shue and produced by Oprah Winfrey's...
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Wintering (Geye)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/wintering-geye
and small towns, history and secrets.… [A] deftly layered and beautifully written novel that owes as much to William Faulkner and it does to Jack London.… Make no mistake: Geye is a skillful, daring writer with talent to burn. Simultaneously epic in...
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Burning Girl (Messud)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/the-burning-girl-messud
program at Syracuse University. Writing Messud's debut novel, When The World Was Steady (1995), was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 1999, she published her second book, The Last Life, about three generations of a French-Algerian family. Her...
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myths of Appalachia, Weiss vividly portrays real people and sorrows. A strong, formidable novel for readers of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. Library Journal [A] masterful use of language.… Weiss' novel is a great suggestion for fans of the Big...
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Sing, Unburied, Sing (Ward)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/sing-unburied-sing-ward
Jesmyn Ward, 2017 Scribner 304 pp. ISBN-13: 9781501126062 Summary Winner, 2017 National Book Award Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that...
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South Pole Station (Shelby)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/south-pole-station-shelby
• Where—Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA • Education—M.F.A., Columbia University • Awards—Third Coast Fiction Prize; William Faulkner Award-Short Fiction • Currently—lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota Ashley Shelby is a former editor at Penguin Books,...
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Ninth Hour (McDermott)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/ninth-hour-mcdermott
and three children. Works • 1982—A Bigamist's Daughter • 1987—That Night (finalist for National Book Award, Pen/Faulkner Award, and Pulitzer Prize) • 1992—At Weddings and Wakes (finalist for Pulitzer Prize) • 1998—Charming Billy (winner, National Book...
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a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation. The innovative techniques of the book, which owed a great deal to the works of William Faulkner but have little precedent in Native-authored fiction, allowed Erdrich to build up a picture of a community in a way...
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Anatomy of a Miracle (Miles)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/anatomy-of-miracle-miles
an obituary about a subject who had admitted regularly providing bootlegged liquor to noted Oxford resident William Faulkner and correctly reporting the fact. Fortunately, Miles's writing caught the eye of Esquire editor Will Blythe, who published an...
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Recovering (Jamison)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/recovering-jamison
attended Harvard College, where she majored in English,; her senior thesis dealt with incest in the work of William Faulkner. While an undergraduate, she won the Edward Eager Memorial Fund prize in creative writing, an award also won by classmate,...
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Overstory (Powers)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/overstory-powers
literary awards and other recognitions. These include, among various others, a MacArthur Fellowship; Pushcart Prize, PEN/Faulkner Special Citation, Man Booker long listing; nominations for the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the...
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Tangled Tree (Quammen)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/tangled-tree-quammen
from Yale. He won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he studied literature, concentrating on the works of William Faulkner. Trout fishing drew Quammen to Montana in the early '70s, and he has lived there ever since—although he still maintains a heavy...
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Trust Exercise (Choi)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/trust-exercise-choi
American Woman, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009. My Education, her fourth, was published in 2013; her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, came out in 2019. (From...
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Night Watchman (Erdrich)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/night-watchman-erdrich
a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation. The innovative techniques of the book, which owed a great deal to the works of William Faulkner but have little precedent in Native-authored fiction, allowed Erdrich to build up a picture of a community in a way...
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- Author: interGen support
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Olive Again (Strout)https://litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/olive-again-strout
to write Amy and Isabelle, which when published was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. The novel was made into a television movie starring Elisabeth Shue and produced by Oprah Winfrey's...
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