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- ↑ Coles, Robert (2003). Children of Crisis: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Five-Volume Children of Crisis Series. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-15102-5.
- ↑ "The Pulitzer Prizes: 1973 Winners". Columbia University. Retrieved January 9, 2009.
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