2006 PEN/Faulkner Awards
"The March" by E.L. Doctorowhas won the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Awards. Other finalists included "TA Sudden Country" by Karen Fisher, "I Got Somebody in Staunton" by William Henry Lewis, "Last Night" by James Salter and "The Chrysanthemum Palace" by Bruce Wagner.
"The March" chronicles General William Tecumseh Sherman's march of sixty thousand Union soldiers through Georgia and the Carolinas "to the sea." Doctorow recounts the destruction of the march and the effect it had on the lives of blacks and whites in the area.
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