Paul Harding | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Occupation | Novelist |
Education | University of Massachusetts, Amherst (BA) University of Iowa (MFA) |
Genre | Literary fiction |
Notable works | Tinkers (2009) |
Notable awards | 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize |
Paul Harding (born 1967) is an American musician and author, best known for his debut novel Tinkers (2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[1] and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize,[2] among other honors. He is currently the director of the Creative Writing and Literature MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton,[3] as well as Interim Associate Provost of Stony Brook University's Lichtenstein Center.[4]