The Distinguished Professor of English earns fiction’s highest honor for his novel James, which offers a searing retelling of a Mark Twain classic.
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Alumni
Buoyed by his background as a lawyer and his USC Dornsife degree in English, Robert Greene has spent decades covering criminal justice and the legal system. [4¼ min read]
Faculty
Viet Thanh Nguyen, associate professor of English and American studies and ethnicity, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his first novel, The Sympathizer, which explores the Vietnam War from multiple perspectives.
Faculty
The award, for local reporting, is for work done at the Daily Breeze in Torrance, California.