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How Grandpa Got Screwed Out of an Oscar

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MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer prize winning author of Andersonville, also wrote the novel that inspired The Best Years of Our Lives. So how come he never got credit?

Tom Shroder
Tom Shroder
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