Question: Mean Spirit is the first novel by a novelist born in what year?
Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Mean Spirit is a book about the Osage tribe during the Oklahoma oil boom. It is Linda Hogan's first novel. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Linda K. Hogan (born 1947) is a poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories. [END] 
Answer: 
1947
1947