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The only person to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his novel Arrowsmith.
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Writer and philosopher Carl Sandburg declined a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Abraham Lincoln in 1940 because he did not want to accept the prize unless it was awarded through the usual process.
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