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WASHINGTON - JULY 08: Pulitzer Prize winner and Vietnam War expert Stanley Karnow (R) speaks as Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund founder and President Jan Scruggs looks on during a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first two American combat casualties of the Vitenam War...

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In this released by from Scholastic, Pulitzer Prize and Tony award winning playwright Tony Kushner addresses more than 500 teenagers from across the country at the 2009 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York, Thursday, June 4, 2009.

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Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author, gives a speech during the Swiss Economic Forum (SEF), in Thun, Switzerland, Thursday, May 14, 2009.

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Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author, gives a speech during the Swiss Economic Forum (SEF), in Thun, Switzerland, Thursday, May 14, 2009.

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Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author, gives a speech during the Swiss Economic Forum (SEF), in Thun, Switzerland, Thursday, May 14, 2009.

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Jon Meacham, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography, poses for a photograph shortly after arriving at his home in New York early Tuesday morning April 21, 2009.

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Jon Meacham, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography, poses for a photograph shortly after arriving at his home in New York early Tuesday morning April 21, 2009.

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Jon Meacham, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography, reads his emails shortly after arriving at his home in New York early Tuesday morning April 21, 2009.

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Jon Meacham, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography, right, shares a moment with his four-year-old daughter Mary and his wife Keith shortly after arriving at his home in New York early Tuesday morning April 21, 2009.

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Jon Meacham, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography, right, reads his emails as his wife Keith, left, carries their four-year-old daughter Mary over to say hello to her father shortly after his arrival home early Tuesday morning April 21, 2009 in New York.

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Las Vegas Sun reporter Alexandra Berzon celebrates the paper's Pulitzer Prize for public service in the newsroom in Henderson, Nev. , Monday, April 20, 2009.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist David Horsey speaks with the media outside the newsroom of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Monday, March 16, 2009, in Seattle.

Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Nick Ut and Kim Phuc (L), the subject of his 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph, reunite in Washington March 3, 2009.

Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Nick Ut and Kim Phuc (R), the subject of his 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph, reunite in Washington March 3, 2009.

Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Nick Ut and Kim Phuc (R), the subject of his 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph, reunite in Washington March 3, 2009.

Actors Viggo Mortensen (L) and Kodi Smit-McPhee, stars in the new drama film "The Road", which is based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, are shown in a scene from the film in this undated publicity photograph.

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Attorney Michael Stefani answers questions from Robert Edick, Attorney for the Attorney Grievance Commission, during a trial before the Attorney Discipline Board, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009 in Detroit.

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Attorney Michael Stefani answers questions from Robert Edick, Attorney for the Attorney Grievance Commission, during a trial before the Attorney Discipline Board, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009 in Detroit.

Author Frank McCourt poses for photographs during an interview with Reuters at Stuyvesant High School in New York City in this November 14, 2005 file photo.

Author Frank McCourt poses for photographs during an interview with Reuters at Stuyvesant High School in New York City in this November 14, 2005 file photo.

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This file picture taken on March 7, 2009 shows Irish-American author Frank McCourt in Paris. McCourt, best known for his moving memoir "Angela's Ashes," is gravely ill with meningitis, British and Irish newspapers reported on July 19, 2009.

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In this November 10, 1995 file photo Christian Science Monitor Reporter David Rohde (L) hugs his nephew Steven Rohde upon arrival at Boston's Logan International Airport after his release by the Bosnian Serbs.

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Former Associated Press photographer Boris Yurchenko, holds the Golden Eye of Russia prize, awarded by Sergei Lidov, left, president of the Guild of Russian Photographers. The photos was taken at Yurchenko's country house outside Moscow on Wednesday, June 10, 2009.

U.S. author Marilynne Robinson smiles during an interview with Reuters in central London June 4, 2009. Robinson won the Orange Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for "Home", the companion piece to her acclaimed "Gilead".

U.S. author Marilynne Robinson smiles during an interview with Reuters in central London June 4, 2009. Robinson won the Orange Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for "Home", the companion piece to her acclaimed "Gilead".