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Margaret Leech
Born(1893-11-07)November 7, 1893
Newburgh, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 24, 1974(1974-02-24) (aged 80)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Historian
  • writer
NationalityAmerican
EducationVassar College (BA)
GenreFiction
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for History (1942, 1960)
Bancroft Prize (1960)
Spouse
Ralph Pulitzer
(m. 1928; died 1939)
Children1

Margaret Kernochan Leech (November 7, 1893 – February 24, 1974), also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American historian and fiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History both in 1942 (Reveille in Washington, Harper) (first woman to win for history) and in 1960 (In the Days of McKinley, Harper).[1]

  1. ^ "History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.

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Origins of the Fifth Amendment

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