Novelist whose "Empire Falls" won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) Crossword Clue

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Novelist whose "Empire Falls" won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) Crossword Answer

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FICTION (noun)
1. a deliberately false or improbable account
2. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
PULITZER (noun)
1. United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911)

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Across

1. Actor Morales with recurring roles on "Chicago P.D." and "How to Get Away With Murder"

5. Apple desktop computer

9. Perch on a stool

12. "One Good ___" (second novel in Kate Atkinson's "Jackson Brodie" series)

13. Novelist Buntline and actor Beatty

14. "Four score and seven years ___..."

15. School basics

16. "___ on a Crack" (James Patterson thriller)

17. "Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life" memoirist Darling

18. Short-story writer whose "Interpreter of Maladies" won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.)

21. ___ tai (rum drink)

22. "Small Craft on a Milk Sea" musician Brian

23. Recreational four-wheeler for short

26. "I pity the fool" speaker (2 wds.)

28. "___ Unsealed" (Belinda Carlisle memoir)

32. Novelist whose "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.)

36. Brazil neighbor

37. Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. ___

38. "It Wasn't All Velvet" memoirist Tormé

39. Doo-wop's "___ Na Na"

42. Microbrewery brew

50. Big bird of Australia

51. Italian forerunner of the euro

52. Drains of energy

54. "The Natural" prop

55. __ a hand (help out)

56. Jai ___ (fast-paced court game)

57. Big name in body spray

58. Gin fizz flavoring

59. Shrill bark

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1. Approximation that may be adjusted for weather delays (Abbr.)

2. Sentence part that's usually a noun (Abbr.)

3. Foot's curve

4. "To recap": 2 wds.

5. Influence artistically

6. Parent company of Facebook, Threads, and Instagram

7. One-named "Someone Like You" singer

8. Channel with Supreme Court coverage

9. Hindu woman's garment

10. Composer Stravinsky

11. Song of Solomon novelist Morrison

19. Llama Llama Misses __: rhyming book by Anna Dewdney

20. Greeting in Granada

23. Bit of rock concert gear

24. Reason for extra innings

25. TiVo predecessor

27. "Trading Spaces" cable network

29. Tech company known as "Big Blue"

30. "The Cask of Amontillado" writer Edgar Allan ___

31. NBC sketch show, for short

33. 'Pipe down!'

34. Blatant pretense

35. "The Mindy Project" streaming service

40. "From the ___ of Montezuma ... "

41. "The Little Mermaid" mermaid

43. Part of a college application

44. Queen of Country McEntire

45. Giant-screen film format

46. Adorable

47. Beijing-born James Bond villain (2 wds.)

48. Kid-lit classic Caps for __

49. Aunt in the "Judy Moody" book series

53. Small taste

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