Alice Walker
American · b. 1944
Alice Walker — eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers, civil-rights worker, and the scholar who found Zora Neale Hurston's unmarked grave — became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction with The Color Purple in 1983. She coined 'womanist' for the tradition she writes in: Black women's survival, voice, and joy taken as epic subjects.
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