Atticus Lish

PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist

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American novelist and 2015 winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel, Preparation for the Next Life

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Atticus Lish's debut novel won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for First Fiction, demonstrating that he waited 40 years to become a natural.

Atticus Lish: Preparation for the Next Life

Atticus Lish's debut novel won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for First Fiction, demonstrating that he waited 40 years to become a natural.

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