Alice Walker - Selected Awards and Honors

Selected Awards and Honors

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983) for The Color Purple
  • National Book Award for Fiction (1983) for The Color Purple
  • O. Henry Award for "Kindred Spirits" 1985.
  • Honorary Degree from the California Institute of the Arts (1995)
  • American Humanist Association named her as "Humanist of the Year" (1997)
  • The Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
  • The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters
  • The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
  • The Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York
  • Induction to the California Hall of Fame in The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts (2006)
  • Domestic Human Rights Award from Global Exchange (2007)

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