When Paul Harding’s novel “Tinkers” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2010, it was a pleasant surprise on a variety of fronts. It was a debut book from a tiny nonprofit publisher funded ...

Tinkers, a first novel by Paul Harding ... Perhaps the biggest surprise is the nature of the book that has achieved all this. Much American fiction is still written in a stripped-down, offhand ...

A week later, he got a call from Bellevue’s editorial director, Erika Goldman: The company was interested in his book. “Tinkers” was finally published in 2009, a decade after Harding ...