American · b. 1950
Karen Joy Fowler won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves," a novel whose central revelation—withheld for fifty pages—transforms everything that precedes it. The American author writes literary fiction that incorporates speculative elements without abandoning realism's concerns. "Booth" was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, examining the Lincoln assassin's family.