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Born March 27, 1950 (age 76) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors National Medal of Arts (2013)
Notable Works “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents” • “The Other Side” • “The Woman I Kept to Myself”

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Elizabeth Coatsworth
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Alice Walker
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Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
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Ana Castillo
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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Rose Cecil O’Neill
American illustrator and writer
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Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
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Larry Woiwode
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Phyllis McGinley
American poet
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Ntozake Shange
American author
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June Jordan
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American writer
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Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
American writer
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Arna Bontemps
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Eunice Tietjens
poet, novelist, and editor
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N. Scott Momaday
American author
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