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Born June 10, 1915 • Lachine • Canada
Died April 5, 2005 (aged 89) • Brookline • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize (1976) • Nobel 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
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John Steinbeck
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Ernest Hemingway
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Alice Walker
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Winner of a Pulitzer Prize
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Katherine Anne Porter
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Pearl Buck.
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
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John Updike
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John Cheever
John Cheever
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Philip Roth
Philip Roth
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Bernard Malamud
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Conrad Michael Richter
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
Michener, James
James Michener
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Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
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Richard Ford
Richard Ford
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Hazzard, Shirley
Shirley Hazzard
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