Posted by EdJH on March 31, 2008 at 12:53:59:
Former Chick-Lit author Kate Christensen won the $15,000 PEN/Faulkner award for her satirical novel, The Great Man. It's her fourth novel and it's about the women a painter leves behind.)
She is only the fifth woman to win the prize in its 28-year history.
Other nominated books were Annie Dillard's The Maytrees, David Leavitt's The Indian Clerk, and two collections of short shories: The Gateway: Stories by TM McNally and Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash.