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| 99% | 15 | GWENDOLYNBROOKS | Exact Match! | |
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| 53% | 7 | Author who became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature | ||
noun • United States novelist (1862-1937) | ||||
| 50% | 11 | Became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | ||
noun • United States writer (born in 1944) | ||||
First Black Poet To Win A Pulitzer Prize
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| New York Times23 Nov 1994 | Across 39 | GWENDOLYNBROOKS |
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