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Born November 25, 1896 • Kansas City • Missouri
Died September 30, 1989 (aged 92) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • Kennedy Center Honors (1983)
Notable Works “The Plow That Broke the Plains”

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