Name: Benjamin Franklin
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Author: Carl Van Doren

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Carl Van Doren's 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Benjamin Franklin contains the most extensive collection of Franklin's autobiographical writings.  Also included are fifty letters written by Franklin that were never published before. 

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