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Born November 26, 1943 (age 81) • Idaho
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize (2005)
Notable Works “Gilead” • “Home” • “Housekeeping” • “Lila” • “Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution” • “What Are We Doing Here?”

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