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| won Pulitzer Prize for Arrowsmith |
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| 1st American to win Nobel Lit Prize |
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| wrote Babbit, Main Street |
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| wrote about CA, Okies, Great Depression |
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| advocated plight of less fortunate in novels (but little faith in social reform) |
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| parents=missionaries to China (set many stories in China) |
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| created fictional Yoknapatawpha County |
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| wrote Absalom, Absalom ; The Sound and the Fury |
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| fav theme: ht and traditions of South |
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| sci-fi writings with poetic style |
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| themes: fear of death; dependence on machines |
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| morbidly comical social commentator |
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| WW2 pow; survived Dresden bombing (hid in meat locker) |
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| worked in Pittsburgh for Home Monthly mag, McClure's mag |
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| friends with Sarah Jewett |
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| wrote Alexander's Bridge, Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop |
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| originally struggled to profit from writings |
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| got various honorary degrees, Pulitzer Prize for 1 of Ours |
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| wrote "just for Isabel" (longtime friend) |
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| born in family of middle-class Catholics |
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| attended Princeton, but poor student |
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| wrote This Side of Paradise, Tender is the Night |
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| lived extravagantly in US then Europe |
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| originally pursued sports like dad; love for boxing appears in many writings |
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| lit career began by working for KS City Star |
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| rejected from WW1 because of eye injury |
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simple, straightforward style
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| had relations with Italian govt/army |
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| wrote Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls |
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| father committed suicide; followed suit later on |
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| divorced and remarried many times |
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| several near-deaths (ambulance driver, Africa safari); thus fear/obsession with testing courage |
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| called master of dialogue |
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| attended Huntingdon College, Uni of AL, Oxford |
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| friends with Truman Capote |
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| wrote one book; it got Pulitzer Prize and turned into major movie |
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| named by Pres Johnson to Natl Council of Arts |
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| intensely private; rarely granted interviews |
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