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- 1 2 "The Pulitzer Prizes | Biography or Autobiography". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ↑ John Matteson, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father, (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), x.
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