“"Between 1945 and 1965 Catholic novelists and poets received 11 Pulitzer Prizes and 5 National Book Awards (6 NBAs if one counts O'Connor's posthumously published Complete Stories in 1972)" (18).”

—  Dana Gioia

Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)

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