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Awards and honors

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  MacDowell Colony Fellowships (1967 and 1974)
  
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  Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship (1967)
  
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  Candace Award, Arts and Letters, National Coalition of 100 Black Women (1982)
  
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  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983) for The Color Purple
  
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  National Book Award for Fiction (1983) for The Color Purple[2][a]
  
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  O. Henry Award for "Kindred Spirits" (1985)
  
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  Honorary degree from the California Institute of the Arts (1995)
  
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  American Humanist Association named her as "Humanist of the Year" (1997)
  
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  Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
  
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  Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters
  
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  Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
  
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  Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York
  
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  Induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (2001)
  
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  Induction into the California Hall of Fame in The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts (2006)
  
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  Domestic Human Rights Award from Global Exchange (2007)
  
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  The LennonOno Grant for Peace (2010)
  

Conclusion
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself coined to make special distinction for the experiences of women of color. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, but Walker created a unique work by combining it with the vernacular of black American English and with the struggle of a poor, uneducated black girl fighting both racism and black patriarchy in the setting of the American South.