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To support unwritten books, donor gives $50 million to Michigan creative writing program

by: JUSTIN POPE , Associated Press

Updated: March 6, 2013 - 11:02 PM

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The wife of billionaire real estate mogul Sam Zell is giving $50 million to support the University of Michigan's acclaimed graduate writing program. The donation, to be announced Thursday, is believed to be by far the largest ever gift to such a program, and comes at a time when most major gifts to higher education are supporting science, not the humanities.

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