Winner of the 1987 Hugo Award for best new writer, Karen Joy Fowler is the author of short story collections and novels that explore characters and situations to reveal various aspects of human nature. She won the Commonwealth Club Medal in 1991 for Sarah Canary and was a finalist for the PEN/Falkner Award in 2002 for Sister Noon. Her novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was made into a film released by Sony Pictures Entertainment in October, 2007.

Titles
  •  Black Glass
  •  The Sweetheart Season
  •  Sarah Canary
  •  Sister Noon
  •  The Jane Austen Book Club
  •  Wit's End

Additional Awards and Honors
John W. Campbell Memorial Award (Hugo Award) for best new writer, World Science Fiction Society, 1987; grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1988; World Fantasy Award for best collection, World Fantasy Convention, 1999, for Black Glass: Short Fictions; Nebula Award for best short story, 2004, for "What I Didn't See."

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Reviews

Blurring The Line Between Fact and Fiction
REVIEW BY DEBORAH DONOVAN
Karen Joy Fowler's fifth novel follows 2004's The Jane Austen Book Club, which was made into a movie last year. Wit's End offers themes similar to those found in that very popular book, but takes some mysterious and highly divergent paths along the way. (read more at BookPage...)