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Pulitzer Prize–Winning Feature, ‘A Boy of Unusual Vision’

By Will Levith
May 17, 2016 5:00 am EDT
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This May 1984 Baltimore Sun feature by Alice Steinbach—about Calvin Stanley, a mature-beyond-his-years 10 year old—won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Read the reprinted story on Longform.

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