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

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

Essence Magazine:

Portrait of American author, poet, and activist Alice Walker as she poses in her home, San Francisco, California, November 1, 1982. (Photo by Janet Fries/Getty Images) By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated December 21, 2023

Forty years ago in 1983, Alice Walker was awarded the

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