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Person · 1944–

Alice Walker

The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

A pillar of [[black-literature]].

Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" (1982) gave voice to Black women's survival and self-discovery, and she coined "womanism" to name a Black feminist vision.

Literature

On the timeline

  1. 1982
    Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"

    Walker's novel wins the Pulitzer Prize the following year.

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