Named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers' organization, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honor their peers. The award judges-working fiction writers all--each read approximately 300 novels and short story collections to select a winner and four nomineers.
11. 1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Three lives are entwined and linked by Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel, "Mrs Dalloway."
12. 1998 - The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
An alto-sax-playing bear trys to evolve his style from Coltrane and Rollins in this sensational novel about jazz.