The shortlist for the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction includes:
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg (Picador)
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (McPherson & Co.)
Model Home by Eric Puchner (Scribner)
Aliens in The Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson (W.W. Norton).
The winner of the $15,000 first prize will be announced March 15, with the four finalists receiving $5,000 each. All five authors will be honored during the PEN/Faulkner Award ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., on May 7.
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg (Picador)
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (McPherson & Co.)
Model Home by Eric Puchner (Scribner)
Aliens in The Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson (W.W. Norton).
The winner of the $15,000 first prize will be announced March 15, with the four finalists receiving $5,000 each. All five authors will be honored during the PEN/Faulkner Award ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., on May 7.