Editing Alice Walker (section)

==Awards and honors==
{{anchor|Selected awards and honors}}
* [[MacDowell Colony]] Fellowships (1967 and 1974)
* [[Ingram Merrill Foundation]] Fellowship (1967)
* [[Candace Award]], Arts and Letters, [[National Coalition of 100 Black Women]] (1982)<ref name="page3">{{cite web |website=National Coalition of 100 Black Women |title=Candace Award Recipients 1982–1990|page= 3 |url=http://www.ncbw.org/programs/award3.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030314213306/http://www.ncbw.org/programs/award3.html |archive-date=March 14, 2003 }}</ref>
* [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] (1983) for ''[[The Color Purple]]''<ref name="pulitzer">[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction "Fiction"]. ''Past winners and finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 17, 2012.</ref>
* [[National Book Award for Fiction]] (1983) for ''The Color Purple''<ref name=nba1983/><ref group=lower-alpha name=paperback>From 1980 to 1983, there were dual hardcover and paperback awards of the [[National Book Award for Fiction]]. Walker won the award for hardcover fiction.</ref>
* [[O. Henry Award]] for "Kindred Spirits" (1985)
* [[Langston Hughes Medal]], (1988), [[City College of New York]]
* Honorary degree from the [[California Institute of the Arts]] (1995)
* [[American Humanist Association]] named her as "Humanist of the Year" (1997)
* [[Lillian Smith Book Award|Lillian Smith Award]] from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]]
* Rosenthal Award from the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters|National Institute of Arts & Letters]]
* [[Radcliffe Institute]] Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]
* Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York
* Induction into the [[Georgia Writers Hall of Fame]] (2001)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia| title =Alice Walker (b. 1944)| encyclopedia =New Georgia Encyclopedia| url =http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/alice-walker-b-1944#print|last=Whitted|first= Qiana|date=October 15, 2021}}</ref>
* Induction into the [[California Hall of Fame]] in [[The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts]] (2006)
* Domestic Human Rights Award from [[Global Exchange]] (2007)
* The [[LennonOno Grant for Peace]] (2010)
* The [[Haydée Santamaría]] medal (2024)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-01 |title=Hermanamiento, desde una honda raíz cultural |url=https://www.granma.cu/cultura/2024-02-01/hermanamiento-desde-una-honda-raiz-cultural-01-02-2024-00-02-24 |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=Granma.cu |language=es}}</ref>