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Who was the first black woman to win the pulitzer for fiction?

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Gwendolyn Brooks

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It was the fourth year of the prizes' existence. "The Age of Innocence," Wharton's book about New York high society during the 1870s, captured the Novel prize, as the Fiction award was known for the first three decades of its existence.

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Alice Walker

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