UW Professor Brad Watson nominated for fiction award
Brad Watson, 55, who turned to writing after his failed year in Hollywood, is not new to literary prizes. His first collection of short stories, "Last Days of the Dog-Men," won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His second work, the novel "The Heaven of Mercury," received the Southern Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and was a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award in Fiction.