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  • The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning short novel by Eudora Welty. It was first published as a long story in The New Yorker in...
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    Eudora Welty (redirect from The Wide Net)
    wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential...
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  • she contacts the Coach of the Lee High Generals, who agrees to take Demon in. Demon moves to a mansion where he meets Coach, his daughter Angus, and a...
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  • by Hernan Diaz. The novel was published by Riverhead Books. Set predominantly in New York City and focusing on the world of finance, the novel is a metafictional...
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  • The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was...
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    published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), it was one of the original Pulitzers; the program was...
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  • Millie Cloud — The daughter of Louis Pipestone and half-sister of Grace Pipestone. Millie is a college student studying Economics at the University of...
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    Hernan Diaz (writer) (category Argentine emigrants to the United States)
    with his wife and daughter. Diaz has received fellowships from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Rockefeller Foundation...
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  • of the Deep South". The New York Times Books. Crews, Claire Elizabeth (2012). The Role of the Home in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and the Optimist's Daughter...
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  • affected by their experiences at the hospital. Jane and Bob Houlton, a retired couple, meet the parents of their daughter's friends at a concert. Jane knows...
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    Jackson, Mississippi (category 1792 establishments in the United States)
    won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for her novel, The Optimist's Daughter, and is best known for her novels and short stories. The main library of the Jackson/Hinds...
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  • National Book Award for Fiction (category 1950 establishments in the United States)
    Since 1987, the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but they are awards "by writers to writers." The panelists...
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  • (1903–1986), The Old Gods Waken Rebecca Wells (born 1952), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Eudora Welty (1909–2001), The Optimist's Daughter Glenway...
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  • (Business, 1930–31, hon. LHD 1982) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, The Optimist's Daughter Frank B. Wilderson III (M.F.A.) – writer, dramatist, filmmaker, and...
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  • Alison Lurie (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    1926 – December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better...
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    The Optimist is a British television comedy series starring Enn Reitel and produced by Robert Sidaway. Each episode tells a separate comic adventure in...
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  • 1973 in literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Championship Season Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Up Country Miles Franklin...
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  • The Optimists (Serbian Cyrillic: Оптимисти) is a 2006 Serbian black comedy film directed by Goran Paskaljević. The film, presented as five unrelated narrative...
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    Eudora Welty House (category Literary museums in the United States)
    and tended to the garden located at the side and back of the home over decades. Welty could often be found writing in her bedroom or on the porch, which...
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    Saul Griffith (category Australian emigrants to the United States)
    Griffith by artist Jude Rae was highly commended in the 2022 Archibald Prize. Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future (2021). Cambridge...
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