Arts & Literature: As one half of the first legal interracial marriage in Mississippi, who was the first African American woman to earn a Pulitzer Prize in fiction?

Answer Alice Walker

With her novel, The Color Purple, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer for Fiction in 1982. Walker would go on to write Possessing the Secret of Joy and The Temple of my Familiar.

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