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Also Known As John Phillips Marquand
Born November 10, 1893 • Wilmington • Delaware
Died July 16, 1960 (aged 66) • Newburyport • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize (1938)
Notable Works “B.F.’s Daughter” • “H.M. Pulham, Esquire” • “Late George Apley, The ” • “Melville Goodwin, U.S.A.” • “Point of No Return” • “Sincerely, Willis Wayde” • “So Little Time” • “Wickford Point ” • “Women and Thomas Harrow”
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