E.L. Doctorow's novel The March, a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle prize, has
won won the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.
Doctorow, who won the 1990 PEN/Faulkner for Billy Bathgate, will receive $15,000. Four runners-up will each receive $5,000: 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.
Other previous PEN/Faulkner winners include Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Ha Jin.
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., is "committed to building audiences for exceptional literature and bringing writers together with their readers."
