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Born September 16, 1943 • Savannah • Georgia
Died July 27, 2016 (aged 72) • Iowa City • Iowa
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works “Gold Coast” • “Hue and Cry”
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
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Winner of a Pulitzer Prize
Annie Proulx
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Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward
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Maxine Kumin
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Hamlin Garland
Hamlin Garland
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William Saroyan.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
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Jhumpa Lahiri, 2013
Jhumpa Lahiri
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N. Scott Momaday
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John Updike
John Updike
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John Cheever
John Cheever
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Willa Cather
Willa Cather
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Saul Bellow
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Michener, James
James Michener
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Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
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Katherine Anne Porter
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Richard Ford
Richard Ford
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Alison Lurie
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Rita Dove
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