This year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to Massachusetts author, Paul Harding, for his debut novel Tinkers.
The April 15, 2010 edition of the Boston Globe featured a page one article on the unlikely success of the novel. The author, a former drummer for a rock band who grew up in the town of Wenham, has set his story in pre-industrial Massachusetts.
Overwhelmingly praised for its poetic prose, Tinkers is the first novel published by a small independent house (Bellevue Literary Press) to be awarded a Pulitzer since 1981.
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