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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was only the third American to win a second Pulitzer Prize in the fiction category.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0His first story was published in the New Yorker at the age of 22.<\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He wrote\u00a0The Witches of Eastwick<\/i>\u00a0(1984), which was turned into a movie in 1987 starring Cher, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon. In 2009, it was turned into a television show starring\u00a0Rebecca Romijn.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He won a Knox fellowship for study at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford University.<\/p>\n

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5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He began his career as a poet in 1958 by publishing his first volume, a collection of poems titled The Carpentered Hen<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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