Jones, Jim Shepard, Deborah Eisenberg, Marilynne Robinson, Nathan Englander, Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, Lydia Davis.

NEWYORKER: Joshua Ferris

Other books in contention were, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander and The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey.

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Nathan Pusey was the first non-New Englander to be made head of America's oldest college (founded 1636).

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