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Category: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction

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Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction to be Awarded to Richard Ford

Posted by: Guy Lamolinara

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced that Richard Ford, author of “Independence Day” – the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – will receive the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction during the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival on Aug. 31. “He has been called …