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Novelist, poet and critic; twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
United States · 1932–2009
Arts and letters
American novelist, poet and critic, author of the four Rabbit novels, two of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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I was prepared to fail. I was prepared to not be able to get things accepted, because I saw that happen to my mother.
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