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27/02/2006
PEN/Faulkner award for Doctorow's The March
EL Doctorow's 'The March', has won the 2006 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.
'The March' is a historical novel, set during Union General Sherman's
scorched-earth campaign through Southern America in the 1860s.
Doctorow, 75, who lives in New York City, said the spark of the idea for The
March came to him two decades ago when he read a soldier's-view account of
Sherman's campaign by historian Joseph Glatthaar.
The novelist, who also won the 1990 PEN/Faulkner for Billy Bathgate, will
receive $15,000.
Four runners-up will receive $5,000 each: Karen Fisher for A Sudden Country;
William Henry Lewis for I Got Somebody in Staunton; James Salter for Last
Night; and Bruce Wagner for The Chrysanthemum Palace.
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