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  • Edward P. Jones

    The result was The Known World (2003), a novel that was greeted as a masterpiece and won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. A third book followed in 2006, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, a collection of short stories that returned to the working-class Washington, D.C., in which Jones’s…

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    The result was The Known World (2003), a novel that was greeted as a masterpiece and won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. A third book followed in 2006, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, a collection of short stories that returned to the working-class Washington, D.C., in which Jones’s…

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  • Colson Whitehead
    Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

    Jeffrey Eugenides 2004 The Known World Edward P. Jones 2005 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2006 March Geraldine Brooks 2007 The

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    Jeffrey Eugenides 2004 The Known World Edward P. Jones 2005 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2006 March Geraldine Brooks 2007 The

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