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- ↑ "Biography or Autobiography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
- ↑ "Bard College professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Elizabeth Frank makes literary debut". Press release October 23, 2004. Bard College.
- ↑ "Some Facts About Ecolint's Fiction". 5 February 2021.
