Tinkers

By Paul Harding
(Bellevue Literary Press, Paperback, 9781934137123, 192pp.)

Publication Date: January 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Hardcover

Categories: Literary

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the January 2009 Indie Next List

Paul Harding is the author of Tinkers, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts and Iowa Writers’ Workshop, was a drummer for the band Cold Water Flat, and has taught writing at Harvard and the University of Iowa. A 2010 Guggenheim fellow and PEN / Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers Award recipient, Harding lives near Boston with his wife and two sons.

Paul Harding's publisher, the tiny Bellevue Literary Press, published only a few thousand copies of his first novel, Tinkers. Expectations were low. Then it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. More at NPR.org