He'll find people like John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Jane Smiley, who just wrote the wonderful book ``A Thousand Acres'' and won a Pulitzer Prize for it. It is now being made into a movie. Writers Workshop. NEA recipients. No, he didn't mention those.
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