Q: Who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
A: Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel “The Age of Innocence.” She was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.
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