2024 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Shortlist

Aug 23, 2024

The Mark Twain House & Museum has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2024 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, which award honors "an exemplary work of fiction from the previous calendar year that speaks with an 'American voice' about American experiences, much like Twain’s masterwork, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." 150 eligible titles published in 2023 were submitted for consideration, and 35 were longlisted for the award. The winner will be announced in October, and will will travel to Hartford, Ct., in November, where they will receive the $25,000 prize.

The shortlist is as follows: 

  • Absolution by Alice McDermott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Be Mine by Richard Ford (Ecco)
  • Emergency by Kathleen Alcott (W.W. Norton & Company)
  • Night Watch by Jayne Ann Phillips (Knopf)
  • North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random House)
  • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Riverhead Books)
  • This Other Eden by Paul Harding (W.W. Norton & Company)
  • Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (Harper)
  • Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link (Random House)
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