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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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