Helen Weinzweig (1915–2010) was a Canadian writer.
 The author of two novels and a short story collection, her novel "Basic Black with Pearls" won the Toronto Book Award in 1981, and her short story collection "A View from the Roof" was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1989.
Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী ; born on July 11, 1967) is an American author.
 Lahiri has been selected as the winner of the 29th PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short story.
 Lahiri's debut short story collection "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, "The Namesake" (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name.
 She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but goes by her nickname Jhumpa.
 Lahiri was a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama.
 (She resigned from the President's Committee in August, 2017, co-signing a letter of resignation that said in reference to President Trump, "Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions.")
 Her book "The Lowland", published in 2013, was a nominee for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.
 Lahiri is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever.
 It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer."
 It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 and its first paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award.
Jack Matthews (22 July 1925 – 28 November 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright and former professor.
 He published 7 novels, 7 collections of short stories, a novella, and 8 volumes of essays.
 He was an avid book collector, and many of his book finds served as a basis for his essays and the historical topics he explored in his fiction.
 His 1972 novel The Charisma Campaigns was nominated by Walker Percy for the National Book Award.
 He has often made 19th century America and the Civil War period the setting for his fiction, starting with his 1981 novel Sassafras and most recently with the 2011 novel Gambler's Nephew (which tells the story of how an abolitionist accidentally kills an escaped slave) and a 2015 story collection Soldier Boys: Tales of the Civil War.
 His plays have been performed at multiple theaters around the country.
Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American writer best known for his short story collection "Jesus' Son" (1992) and his novel "Tree of Smoke" (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction.
 He also wrote plays, poetry, journalism, and non-fiction.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a 2012 short story collection by the American writer Nathan Englander.
 It was first published on February 7, 2012 through Knopf and collects eight of Englander's short stories, including the title story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank."
 The title of the collection takes influence from Raymond Carver's 1981 short story collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."
 It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, losing to Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son".
 Englander's collection was awarded the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a short story collection by William Faulkner published by Random House in 1950.
 It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951.
 The publication of this collection of 42 stories was authorized and supervised by Faulkner himself, who came up with the themed section headings.
Thunderstruck (2014) is a short story collection by American author Elizabeth McCracken.
 It won the Story Prize in 2014.
 The collection was also on the long list for the National Book Award.
Tree of Smoke is a 2007 novel by American author Denis Johnson which won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
 It is about a man named Skip Sands who joins the CIA in 1965, and begins working in Vietnam during the American involvement there.
 The time frame of the novel is from 1963 to 1970, with a coda set in 1983.
 One of the protagonists of "Tree of Smoke" is Bill Houston, who was the main character in Johnson's 1983 debut novel "Angels".
Birds of America (1998) is a collection of short stories by American writer Lorrie Moore.
 The stories in this collection originally appeared in "The New Yorker", "Elle", "The New York Times", and "The Paris Review".
 The story "People Like That Are the Only People Here" won an O. Henry Award in 1998.
 The book became a "New York Times" bestseller, a rarity for a short story collection.
 The book was included in the "New York Times Book Review" books of the year list in 1998.
 Winner of the Irish Times international fiction prize.
 A Village Voice book of the year (1998).
 Winner of the Salon Book Award.

Question: The author of the short story collection "Jesus' Son" also wrote a book which won the National Book Award for Fiction featuring a protagonist by which name?
Answer: Skip Sands