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1.
In 1930, who was the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
2.
Who received the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the novel In This Our Life?
3.
What team of authors wrote detective novels under the pen name Ellery Queen?
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Who wrote a short story that was adapted into the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window?
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Who wrote the novel Porgy that was later used as the basis of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess?
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What Pulitzer Prize winning author wrote the screenplay for the movie Viva Zapata?
