Democracy NOW! - DN! 1/2 As the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners are announced, we speak with the first African American woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for fiction: author, poet and activist, Alice Walker. She was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer for her novel, The Color Purple. Published with written permission from democracynow.org. www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. All credits for this video belong to democracynow.org, an independent user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide.