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Who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (in 1921) for her novel 'The Age of Innocence'?

  1. Willa Cather
  2. Edith Wharton
  3. Pearl S. Buck
  4. Harper Lee

Answer: Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer for 'The Age of Innocence', a brilliant critique of the rigid social codes of New York's Gilded Age aristocracy.

Topic Literary Awards - History
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