On American Masters, meet the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for her 1982 novel “The Color Purple”).
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On American Masters, meet the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for her 1982 novel “The Color Purple”).