Paul Harding (author)

Paul Harding
Born1967 (age 5758)
OccupationNovelist
EducationUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst (BA)
University of Iowa (MFA)
GenreLiterary fiction
Notable worksTinkers (2009)
Notable awards2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize

Paul Harding (born 1967) is an American musician and author, best known for his debut novel Tinkers (2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, among other honors. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston. Previously, Harding was the director of the Creative Writing and Literature MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, as well as Interim Associate Provost of Stony Brook University's Lichtenstein Center.