Twenty publishers rejected Paul Harding's novel before one made an offer. The one that bit? A tiny operation running from what Harding has described as "a janitor's closet" (actually a small, ...

When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced this past week, perhaps no one was more surprised than fiction winner Paul Harding. His novel, Tinkers, was released by a little-known publishing company with ...

When New England writer Paul Harding's novel Tinkers was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in April, it had the makings of the feel-good story of the literary season. Tinkers was, after all, a ...

Paul Harding's novel Tinkers became the first small-press book in more than three decades to win a Pulitzer this year, and it did so without a Twitter feed or Facebook page. Old-fashioned word of ...

It happened to me once again, just as it had a decade ago, when publisher Erika Goldman gave me a galley of Paul Harding’s Tinkers, a first novel from a small press only a few years old at the time.

At 191-pages, not-quite 5 x 7 inches in size, and with a lone person tromping through snow on the cover, “Tinkers” by Paul Harding is so darling, I couldn’t wait to read it. The title is terribly ...

Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2009 novel Tinkers is hailed for its multi-tiered and intergenerational narrative. The tale is told by an elderly clock repairman named George Washington Crosby, ...

Paul Harding's first novel, "Tinkers," seemed to come out of nowhere to win the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His follow-up, treads the same New England territory as its predecessor; its hero, such ...

Paul Harding’s startling debut novel is a hypnotic rendering of a dying man’s last thoughts. As George Washington Crosby expires, his hallucinating brain untethers itself from sense, ranging across ...

It will surprise few readers of Tinkers, a Pulitzer prize-winning first novel, that Paul Harding was a student of Marilynne Robinson, who won a Pulitzer for Gilead in 2005. Robinson swept us into the ...