''All the Living'' is the 2009 debut novel of American author

C. E. Morgan C. E. Morgan (born 1976) is an American author. She was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for ''The Sport of Kings (novel), The Sport of Kings'', winner of the 2016 Kirkus Prize and Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, and in 2009 ...

Writing and development

Morgan wrote the novel over the course of a fourteen-day period.

Reception

Critical reception

The novel received positive reviews. Critics writing for ''

Tin House ''Tin House'' is an American book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArt ...

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The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

'' highlighted the quality of Morgan's prose.

Honors

The novel was a finalist for the

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award The PEN/Hemingway Award is awarded annually to a full-length novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a full-length book of fiction. The award is named after Ernest Hemingway and funded by the Hemingway ...

References

2009 American novels 2009 debut novels Novels set in Kentucky Farrar, Straus and Giroux books {{2010s-novel-stub