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- ↑ International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 (Psychology Press, 2003: ISBN 1-85743-179-0), p. 479.
- ↑ "National Book Awards – 1975". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
There was a "Contemporary" or "Current" award category from 1972 to 1980. - ↑ "Review/Theater; Out of the Old South, the Words of a Witness", The New York Times, Frank Rich, October 23, 1989
