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The article reports that author Barbara Ehrenreich received the Puffin/Nation Prize for 2004. The fourth annual winner of the Puffin/Nation Prize for 2004 is author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, a longtime contributor to this magazine, as well as to other periodicals on the left and center. Ehrenreich is the author of twelve books, most recently the bestselling "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America." It has passed the 1 million mark in sales and is assigned reading at more than 600 colleges and at public high schools in Chicago, Madison and elsewhere. Ehrenreich evoked the lives of the poor by first walking in their shoes--working in turn as a waitress, cleaning woman, nursing-home attendant and Wal-Mart clerk and experiencing how tough it is to "get by" on their pay.