Celebrating 2017 African-American Pulitzer Prize Winners  | What's The 411 | Books and Authors
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Date: 15/05/2017

http://www.whatsthe411.com --What's The 411TV partners with Troy Johnson, President, and Webmaster, African-American Literature Book Club (AALBC).  In this first segment, Johnson recognizes this year’s African-American Pulitzer Prize winners. They are:

Tyehimba Jess
Colson Whitehead
Lynn Nottage
Hilton Als

The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917, and in 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize. Brooks won in the Poetry category for her book of poems, Annie Allen. James Alan McPherson became the second African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first to win for fiction, when he won in 1978, for Elbow Room.

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