Who received the first National Book Award for Fiction?
Nelson Algren received the first National Book Award for Fiction in 1950 for The Man with the Golden Arm.
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When and for what work did Winston Churchill win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Which American writers have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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What was George Eliot’s real name?
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