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Born June 10, 1915 • Lachine • Canada
Died April 5, 2005 (aged 89) • Brookline • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1976) • Pulitzer Prize (1976) • National Book Award (1971) • National Book Award (1965) • National Book Award (1954)
Notable Works “Dangling Man” • “Henderson the Rain King” • “Herzog” • “Humboldt’s Gift” • “Mr. Sammler’s Planet” • “Ravelstein” • “Seize the Day” • “The Adventures of Augie March” • “The Victim”
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
American novelist
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American writer
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American writer
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize
Annie Proulx
American author
Katherine Anne Porter
American author
Pearl Buck.
Pearl S. Buck
American author
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
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John Updike
John Updike
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John Cheever
John Cheever
American author
Philip Roth
Philip Roth
American author
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud
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Conrad Michael Richter
American author
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
American author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
Michener, James
James Michener
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Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
American author
Richard Ford
Richard Ford
American author
Hazzard, Shirley
Shirley Hazzard
American author