Finalist: The Moor's Account, by Laila Lalami (Pantheon)
A creative narrative of the ill-fated 16th Century Spanish expedition to Florida, compassionately imagined out of the gaps and silences of history.
Winners
Prize Winner in Fiction in 2015:
Anthony Doerr
An imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology.
Fiction
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Fiction in 2015:
Joyce Carol Oates
A rich collection of stories told from many rungs of the social ladder and distinguished by their intelligence, language and technique.
Richard Ford
An unflinching series of narratives, set in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, insightfully portraying a society in decline.
The Jury
The Jury
Elizabeth Taylor(Chair )
literary editor
Alan Cheuse
author, writer and NPR book commentator
David Haynes
professor of English and director of creative writing
Winners in Fiction
Donna Tartt
A beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn characters that follows a grieving boy's entanglement with a small famous painting that has eluded destruction, a book that stimulates the mind and touches the heart.
Adam Johnson
An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.
No award
No award
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.
2015 Prize Winners
Anthony Doerr
An imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology.
Julia Wolfe
A powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th Century.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
A nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.
David I. Kertzer
An engrossing dual biography that uses recently opened Vatican archives to shed light on two men who exercised nearly absolute power over their realms.