Nathan Harris

American novelist who studied English at the University of Oregon, graduating in 2014, and then held a fellowship at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His debut novel, The Sweetness of Water (2021), set in Georgia at the close of the American Civil War, follows two newly freed brothers who find work on a local farm. It won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. The Sweetness of Water was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Nathan Harris’s life

Works

• The Sweetness of Water (2021)

Prizes

• The Sweetness of Water — The Booker Prize 2021: Longlist