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Pulitzer prize-winning novelist
Alice Walker, 62
Smart money move: "Early on, my father said that each of us had to have a savings account. He took us to the Farmers & Merchants Bank in Eatonton, Ga., where I opened my first account with 50 cents I made selling eggs."

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