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 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Color Purple.
This was a historic moment because Walker was the first Black “woman to win a Pulitzer
