The PEN/Faulkner Award is the largest annual juried prize for fiction in the United States. The award winner receives $15,000 and each of the four nominees receives $5,000.

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2008 The Great Man by Kate Christensen

2007 Everyman by Philip Roth

2006 The March by E.L. Doctorow

2005 War Trash by Ha Jin

2004 Early Stories by John Updike

2003 The Caprices by Sabina Murray

2002 Bel Canto : A Novel by Ann Patchett

2001 The Human Stain by Philip Roth

2000 Waiting by Ha Jin

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham

1998 The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor

1997 Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford

1995 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

1994 Operation Shylock by Philip Roth

1993 Postcards by E. Annie Proulx

1992 Mao II by Don DeLillo

1991 Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman

1990 Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow