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Who was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
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In 1969, Moneta Sleet, Jr. became the second African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, and the first African-American to win a Pulitzer for Photography, for his image of widow Coretta Scott King and child at Martin Luther King's funeral. The picture, Deep Sorrow, was featured in Ebony magazine.
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∙ 13y agoIn 1978, James Alan McPherson became the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel, Elbow Room (Atlantic Monthly Press). McPherson's tale explores social attitudes related to interracial marriage in the 1960s and 1970s, as told by a third-person narrator, a friend of the ostracized couple.
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∙ 13y ago1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen, Poetry
1987 Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah, Poetry
1994 Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular, Poetry
2007 Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard, Poetry
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∙ 10y agoThe first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize is Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks won the prize in 1949 for her work in poetry, Annie Allen.
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∙ 13y agoGwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for her collection of poems, Annie Allen (Harper).
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What work did James Alan McPherson win the Pulitzer prize in 1978 for?
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