#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.

She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.

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#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

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#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1963, Sylvia Plath's only novel, 'The Bell Jar' is published in the UK under the name Victoria Lucas. It’s republished in her own name in 1967.

Bonus article on some of the, er, curious cover choices. You can probably date yourself by which cover you recognise.
https://lithub.com/15-covers-for-the-bell-jar-ranked-from-most-to-least-sexist/

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#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.

https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/9780143131847 (affiliate link)

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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.

Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4

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