"I was just a little white girl who grew up in the suburbs." "Everyone writes most strongly from their own identity," she explained earlier in the week from her home in Washington state. When she was in college at the University of California at Santa Barbara, she thought about writing but felt she had nothing to say. He carried his girl tied to his front, the trapsack on his back, the rifle balanced like a yoke along his shoulders, Stamberg read.įisher is 44. For Karen Fisher, whose first novel was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, this kind of national recognition came straight out of the blue.īut there she was, perched behind Doctorow on the stage of the Folger Theatre for last night's award presentation, as emcee Susan Stamberg read the first sentence of "A Sudden Country," which is set in 1847 and peopled by western migrants on the Oregon Trail. Doctorow, the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - which he won for "The March" - is just the latest in a writing lifetime filled with honors.
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