(Alex Haley won a "special Pulitzer Award" for the 1977 book, but later settled a lawsuit admitting plagiarism from Harold Courlander's "The African", 1967 )
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In 1978, James Alan McPherson became the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel, Elbow Room.The Pulitzer Prize Board recognized Alex Haley with a Special Citation the year before (1977) for his historical fiction, Roots, but he didn't actually win a Pulitzer Prize.
Alex Haley won the Pulitzer Prize on April 18, 1977.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family was written by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Alex Haley. It was published in 1976.
Margaret Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for her novel, The Able McLaughlins (Harper).
Author Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Author Toni Morrison wrote Beloved, the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction.
Carl Sagan won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book The Dragons of Eden in 1978.
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The Pulitzer Prize is awarded in the United States.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama was created in 1918.