First Novelist Panel Discussion 

P.J. Mark is vice president, as well as a literary agent, of Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Mark’s authors have received awards and honors, such as the “5 Under 35” honor by the National Book Award Foundation, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Art Seidenbaum Award by the Los Angeles Times, the Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome, multiple awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, a “20 Under 40” honor by The New Yorker, the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism, the Guardian First Book Award, fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, and National Book Award finalist medals.