Finalist: The Privileges , by Jonathan Dee (Random House )
A contemporary, wide ranging tale about an elite Manhattan family, moral bankruptcy and the long reach of wealth.
Winners
Prize Winner in Fiction in 2011:
Jennifer Egan
An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.
Fiction
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Fiction in 2011:
Chang-rae Lee
A haunting and often heartbreaking epic whose characters explore the deep reverberations of love, devotion and war.
The Jury
The Jury
Alan Cheuse
author, writer and NPR book critic
Elizabeth Taylor(chair )
literary editor
Nicholas Delbanco
author and Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor
Winners in Fiction
Paul Harding
A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.
Elizabeth Strout
A collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine that packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating.
2011 Prize Winners
Jennifer Egan
An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.
Ron Chernow
A sweeping, authoritative portrait of an iconic leader learning to master his private feelings in order to fulfill his public duties.
Mike Keefe
For his widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages.
Kay Ryan
A body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind.