2007
John Searles, Sargent Prize Winner Junot Diaz and Betty Kelly Sargent
Andrew O’Hagan and Maxwell E. Perkins Award recipent Drenka Willen
Sargent Finalist Jon Clinch and his wife Wendy
Sargent Finalist Austin Grossman and Jami Bartlett
Sargent finalist Nathan Englander autographing a copy of Ministry of Special Cases
Elizabeth de Leon, Sargent winner Junot Diaz and Sean McDonald
Shirley Hazzard
2007 Awards Dinner photographs by Chris Peterson
The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction's
2007 Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner
October 29, 2007
with presentation of:
The 8th Annual Clifton Fadiman Medal for Excellence in Fiction to Lore Segal
The 3rd Annual Maxwell E. Perkins Award to Drenka Willen
and announcing the winner of:
The 2nd Annual
John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
At the 2006 Annual Awards Dinner
the Merc honored:
GARY FISKETJON
as the Second Annual Maxwell E. Perkins Recipient
Photo by Jane Wexler
ROBERT COOVER
as the Seventh Annual Clifton Fadiman Medal Recipient for Pricksongs and Descants;
selected and to be presented by T.C. BOYLE
Robert Coover (left) and T.C. Boyle (right)
And
Marisha Pessl as the First Annual
John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize Recipient for Special Topics in Calamity Physics
The Clifton Fadiman Medal for Excellence in Literature was established in 2000 to recognize and individual work of fiction by a living American author that merits rediscovery and a wider readership.
The Maxwell E. Perkins Awawrd honors an editor, publisher, or agent who over the course of his or her career has discovered, nurtured, and championed writers of fiction in the United States
The John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize recognizes the best first novel published during the year
Clifton Fadiman Medal Winner Lore Segal
Cynthia Ozick and John Searles
Denise Shannon, Molly Brown, Sargent Finalist Ehud Havazelet and Friend
Sargent finalist Daniel Alarcon and his wife Laura Rysman
Bill Buford and Jessica Green
2007 John Sargent Sr.,
First Novel Prize
Shortlist
Finn by Jon Clinch (Random House)
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon (HarperCollins)
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander (Knopf)
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman (Pantheon)
Bearing the Body by Ehud Havazelet (FSG)
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski (FSG)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)