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Mar 11, 2024 · Alice Walker became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple (1982). One of the most important literary figures of second-wave feminism, Walker’s novels, short stories, and poems are celebrated for their insightful treatment of African American culture and for their complex portraits of women.
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Apr 18, 2015 · April 18, 2015; April 18, 1983: Alice Walker Becomes the First Woman of Color to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction April 18, 1983: Alice Walker Becomes the First Woman of Color to Win the ...
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. [3] [4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published ...
The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. The three fiction judges – literary critic Stuart Pratt Sherman, literature professor Robert Morss Lovett, and novelist Hamlin Garland – voted to give the prize to Sinclair Lewis for his satire Main Street, but Columbia ...
3 days ago · The Color Purple, novel by Alice Walker, published in 1982.It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, making Walker the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer for fiction.A feminist work about an abused and uneducated African American woman’s struggle for empowerment, The Color Purple was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of Black English Vernacular.
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In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Novel Prize. It was the fourth year of the Prizes’ existence. "The Age of Innocence," Wharton’s book about New York high society during the 1870s, captured the Novel Prize, as the Fiction award was known for the first three decades of its existence. Last year, for the 100th ...
Feb 14, 2014 · February 14, 2014. Alice Walker has been defined as one of the key international writers’ of the 20th century. Walker made history as the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for ...
