About Paul Harding
Paul Harding has an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (2000) and was a 2000–2001 Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, MA. He has published short stories in Shakepainter and The Harvard Review. Paul currently teaches creative writing at Harvard. Tinkers is his first novel.
Tinkers has been featured in the following awards and lists:
*Awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
*Indie Choice Adult Debut Honor Award Recipient
*Finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum First Fiction Award and the 2009 Center For Fiction’s First Fiction Prize
*An ALA Notable Book for 2010
* NHNPR.org Overlooked Books of 2009
*Granta.com Best Books of the Year
*San Francisco Chronicle’s 100 best fiction and nonfiction books of 2009
*NPR.org: The Best Debut Fiction 2009
*The New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites for 2009
* #1 on list of Minneapolis Star Tribune Holiday books 2009
*Library Journal Best Books 2009
*Publishers Weekly’s editors’ choice for fiction top 10 for 2009
*Amazon.com's editor’s choice for fiction top 10 for 2009
*An Indie Next featured title
*An Audible Indie First Selection
*Granta.com Best Books of the Year