Biography
Paul Harding grew up in Wenham, MA and went to school at UMass Amherst. After graduating, he recorded two albums and toured Europe with Cold Water Flat, the band he helped form while in college.
After the group disbanded, Paul enrolled in a summer writing program at Skidmore College where he studied under Marilyn Robinson. He was then accepted into the Iowa Writer's Workshop in Iowa City, IA. After receiving his MFA from the University of Iowa, he moved back to Massachusetts and was teaching expository writing to undergraduates at Harvard and creative writing to night-school students.
He won the Pulitzer Prize in February, 2010. Paul is currently taking a leave from teaching to focus full-time on his next novel, Enon, due out in 2012. Paul resides in Georgetown, MA with his wife and two sons.