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Born May 27, 1915 • New York City • New York
Died May 17, 2019 (aged 103) • Palm Springs • California
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works “A Hole in Texas” • “Marjorie Morningstar” • “Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-old Author” • “The Caine Mutiny” • “The Lawgiver”
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American writer
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American writer
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
American novelist
N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday
American author
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize
Annie Proulx
American author
Saul Bellow
American author
Michener, James
James Michener
American author
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley
American author
Oscar Hijuelos
American author
Richard Ford
Richard Ford
American author
Ellen Glasgow, miniature by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Virginia Historical Society.
Ellen Glasgow
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MacKinlay Kantor
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Anne Rice
Anne Rice
American author
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Connelly, Marc
Marc Connelly
American playwright
Hamlin Garland
Hamlin Garland
American writer
William Saroyan.
William Saroyan
American author
Paul Horgan
American author
Jimmy Breslin
American columnist and novelist
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author