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Paul Harding (born 1967) is an American musician and author, best known for his debut novel Tinkers (2009) which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2010 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers. Harding was drummer for the band Cold Water Flat from approximately the founding in 1990 to 1997. Harding has a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught writing at Harvard University and the University of Iowa.

Harding grew up on the north shore of Boston in the town of Wenham, Massachusetts. As a youth he spent a lot of time "knocking about in the woods" which he attributes to his love of nature. His grandfather fixed clocks and he apprenticed under him, an experience that found its way into his novel Tinkers. After graduating from UMass, he spent time touring with his band Cold Water Flat in the US and Europe. He had always been a heavy reader and while in the middle of reading Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra he remembered putting it down and thinking "this is what I want to do". In that book Harding saw the entire world, all of history. When he next had time off from touring with the band he signed up for a summer writing class at Skidmore College in New York. By pure chance his teacher was Marilynne Robinson and through her he learned about the Iowa Writers' Workshop writing program and applied and was accepted. There he studied with Barry Unsworth, Elizabeth McCracken and later Marilynne Robinson. At some point he realized some of the people he admired most were "profoundly religious" and so he spent years reading theology, and was "deeply" influenced by Karl Barth and John Calvin. He considers himself a "self-taught modern New England transcendentalist".

Musically, he admires jazz drummers and considers Coltrane's drummer, Elvin Jones, the greatest.

Harding lives near Boston with his wife and two sons.

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Total Books: 159
Dark Serpent
2017 - Dark Serpent [Hugh Corbett, Bk 18] (Paperback)Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781472233707
ISBN-10: 1472233700
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.7/5 Stars.
 3

Enon
2013 - Enon (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781400069439
ISBN-10: 1400069432
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 2.2/5 Stars.
 3

Tinkers
2010 - Tinkers (Audio CD)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781441879912
ISBN-10: 1441879919
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
 6

Tinkers
2009 - Tinkers (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781934137123
ISBN-10: 193413712X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
 137

The Field of Blood
2000 - The Field of Blood [Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, Bk 9] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780747260738
ISBN-10: 0747260737
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 8

The Assassin's Riddle
1997 - The Assassin's Riddle [Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, Bk 7] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780747254386
ISBN-10: 0747254389
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 7

Red Slayer
1995 - Red Slayer [aka The House of the Red Slayer - Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, Bk 2] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780380721061
ISBN-10: 0380721066
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 15

The Anger of God
1994 - The Anger of God [Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, Bk 4] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780747242628
ISBN-10: 0747242623
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 10

The Serpent Amongst the Lilies
1990 - The Serpent Amongst the Lilies [Matthew Jenkyn, Bk 2] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780312051549
ISBN-10: 0312051549
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
 2