PEN/Faulkner award goes to...

E.L. Doctorow has won the PEN/Faulkner award for his latest novel, The March. Published in 2005, Doctorow's novel is a fictionalized account of Sherman's tumultuous "March to the Sea" during the Civil War, when General William Tecumseh Sherman pillaged and plowed a destructive path through the south, destroying and cutting off the Confederate army's supplies. Doctorow is a celebrated master of historical fiction; his superb novel Ragtime is an account of America at the turn-of-the century that follows real-life historical characters who changed and impacted this country.