1999

Hummingbird House

By Patricia Henley

Original Publisher: MacMurray & Beck

Current Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing

Fiction Finalists That Year:

• Andre Dubus III for House of Sand and Fog
• Kent Haruf for Plainsong
• Patricia Henley for Hummingbird House
• Jean Thompson for Who Do You Love

Fiction Winner That Year: Ha Jin for Waiting

Fiction Judges That Year: Charles Johnson, Dorothy Allison, Allegra Goodman, Terry McMillan, Scott Spencer

The Year in Literature:

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
• Günter Grass won the Nobel Prize for literature.

More Information: Henley is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, three short story collections, two novels, a stage play, and numerous essays. She has taught for 24 years in the MFA Program at Purdue University.