updated 3:39 AM EST, Sat January 21, 2012
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Few would consider Pulitzer-winning author Jennifer Egan a failure. But she once did — oddly enough, after getting her first story published in The New Yorker. She feared she'd never top it. But as Egan and others have learned, failure is a great opportunity for creative growth.
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