Who is the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction?

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Edith Warton, for The age of Innocence, and Zona Gale, for Miss Lulu Bett, both in 1921, but Margaret Widdemer got an Award for poetry in 1919 for Old Road to Paradise. Ref. http://www.pulitzer.org/Archive/Award_Winners/award_winners.html May 23 00, 12:52 PM

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