Awards & Winners

Padgett Powell

Date of Birth 25-April-1952
Place of Birth Gainesville
(Alachua County, Florida, United States of America, Area code 352)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Novelist, Writer
Padgett Powell is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto, was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker. Powell has written four more novels—including Edisto Revisited, a sequel to his debut, Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men, The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?, and You & Me, his most recent—and two collections of short stories. In addition to The New Yorker, Powell's work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, Grand Street, Oxford American, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida since 1984.

Awards by Padgett Powell

Check all the awards nominated and won by Padgett Powell.

1986


1984


Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for First Work of Fiction Edisto