Specials DIVERSITY EMPLOYERS MAGAZINE Spring 2011 - Anniversary Commemorative Issue

Music Band Drummer Wins Pulitzer With Debut Novel

Posted: April 14, 2010

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A visiting faculty member at the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop has won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Paul Harding says he learned he had won the prize Monday by scanning the Pulitzer's Web site. No one called to give him the good news.

Harding won for "Tinkers," his debut novel about an old New Englander looking back on his life. Harding is a former drummer and started the book years ago when the band wasn't performing.

He says winning the Pulitzer is a "surreal" experience.