British · b. 1967
Paul Harding won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2010 for "Tinkers," a novel about a dying man's memories of his father, a clock repairman and epileptic who abandoned his family. The book was originally published by a small press after major houses rejected it. "This Other Eden" (2023) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize—a novel about a mixed-race community on a Maine island. Harding writes about time, memory, and consciousness with patient precision.