Did You Know Alice Walker Was The First Black Woman To Win A Pulitzer Prize For Fiction After Writing The Color Purple? | Essence

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Did You Know Alice Walker Was The First Black Woman To Win A Pulitzer Prize For Fiction After Writing The Color Purple? | Essence

Forty years ago in 1983, Alice Walker was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Color Purple. This was a historic moment because Walker was the first […]

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