She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope All-Story, and Ploughshares, among others, and her journalism appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She has published one short story collection, and four novels, among which Look at Me was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001, and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011. She won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzers in journalism, letters, drama and music are given out annually by Columbia University on the recommendation of a 19-person board and each award carries a $10,000 prize.
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