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Alice Walker on Black History Month 2013

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The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction celebrates the legacy of black writers in an inspiring video.

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"I was not the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer, but I was the first to win it for fiction. It brought in a lot of readers who would not have been interested before," says Alice

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