Maybe the winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Non-fiction were foreordained. The fiction winner was about a woman's extramarital affair. The non-fiction was a biography of Catherine the Great, a powerful woman who was not unacquainted with a large number of lovers.
While the winners were determined by librarians, who are in a profession where the majority are women, it seems unlikely that the protagonist of either book was seen as a role model.
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