1999

House of Sand and Fog

By Andre Dubus III

Original and Current Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.

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:

• Dubus is the son of the writer Andre Dubus II.
• House of Sand and Fog was made into a 2003 film of the same title directed by Vadim Perelman. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Actor (Ben Kingsley), Best Supporting Actress (Shohreh Aghdashloo), and Best Original Score (James Horner).