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The Able McLaughlins

by Margaret Wilson

The Able McLaughlins is a 1923 novel by Margaret Wilson first published by Harper & Brothers. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1924. It won the Harper Prize Novel Contest for 1922-23, the first time the prize was awarded.Wilson published a sequel, The Law and the McLaughlins, in 1936.

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English

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English

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1923

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Margaret Wilson

United States

Margaret Wilhelmina Wilson was an American novelist. She was awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for The Able McLaughlins. Born in Traer, Iowa, Wilson grew up on a farm and attended the University of Chic...

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