biography
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| female
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| (1915–79)
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| biography:
| Short-story writer and novelist, born in Covina, California, USA. She studied at Colorado University, worked on the Southern Review, and taught at Flushing College. Boston Adventure, her first novel, was published in 1944 to great praise; The Mountain Lion, her second, appeared in 1947. She taught throughout the 1960s and published short stories, children's books, and an interview with the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, A Mother in History (1966). One of America's most admired short-story writers, her Collected Stories appeared in 1969, and won a Pulitzer Prize. |
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