{"id":137,"date":"2008-03-13T10:25:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T17:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-03-13T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T17:25:27","slug":"kate-christensen-wins-2008-penfaulkner-award-for-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/13\/kate-christensen-wins-2008-penfaulkner-award-for-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Christensen Wins 2008 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Kate Christensen, <span class=\"book-title\">The Great Man<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Man-Novel-Kate-Christensen\/dp\/0385518455\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1205428722&amp;sr=8-1\" title=\"click to purchase Kate Christensen's THE GREAT MAN\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31WrHxochzL._AA240_.jpg\" alt=\"click to purchase Kate Christensen's THE GREAT MAN\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a>Kate Christensen&#8217;s novel <em>The Great Man<\/em> (Doubleday) has been selected as the winner of the 2008 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The announcement was made March 12 by the directors of the PEN\/Faulkner Foundation, Patricia Griffith and Robert Stone, Co-Chairmen.<\/p>\n<p>The judges\u2014Molly Giles, Victor LaValle, and Richard Bausch\u2014considered close to 350 novels and short story collections by American authors published in the US during the 2007 calendar year. Submissions came from over 70 publishing houses, including small and academic presses. There is no fee for a publisher to submit a book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penfaulkner.org\/downloads\/2008_PF_AWARD_RELEASE.doc\" target=\"_blank\">Download the press release<\/a> [Word Doc]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"black\">2008 FINALISTS<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"no-bullet\">\n<li>Annie Dillard, <em><span class=\"book-title\">The Maytrees<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li>David Leavitt, <em><span class=\"book-title\">The Indian Clerk<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li>T.M. McNally, <em><span class=\"book-title\">The Gateway: Stories<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ron Rash, <em><span class=\"book-title\">Chemistry and Other Stories<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penfaulkner.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to visit the PEN\/Faulkner Foundation website<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Christensen, The Great Man Kate Christensen&#8217;s novel The Great Man (Doubleday) has been selected as the winner of the 2008 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The announcement was made March 12 by the directors of the PEN\/Faulkner Foundation, Patricia Griffith and Robert Stone, Co-Chairmen. The judges\u2014Molly Giles, Victor LaValle, and Richard Bausch\u2014considered close to 350 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}