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Born 1961 (age 65) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize (1994)
Notable Works “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” • “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration”

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