For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
| Awarded to “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books). |
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: “Tree of Smoke” by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and “Shakespeare’s Kitchen” by Lore Segal (The New Press).
Though this one is winning awards left and right I feel resistant to it. I don’t even know what it is about but the cover is unappealing. But I suspect that I will be picking it up sometime just to see what all the hubbub is about.