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The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.. The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content ...
The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes.It is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, marking a turning point in his career as it was a departure from the summer blockbusters for which he had become known.
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. [3] [4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published ...
The Color Purple. Taraji P. Henson is an actor with range. Find me another actor who could play Benjamin Button's adoptive mother aging forward while her child ages in reverse, meme-machine and ...
“The Color Purple” catalogs a staggering amount of trauma, but takes no pleasure in depicting it — that can be challenging in stories where a character is made to suffer for years before ...
Warning: Spoilers below for The Color Purple. The movie, which hit theaters on Monday, December 25, is based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-prize-winning novel of the same name.
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives.
Book Author August 1, 1970 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou: August 17, 1976 Roots: The Saga of an American Family: Alex Haley: April 12, 1981 Tar Baby: Toni Morrison: 1984 The Color Purple: Alice Walker: January 25, 1987 Fatherhood: Bill Cosby: August 16, 1987 Time Flies: Bill Cosby: May 8, 1988 Beloved: Toni Morrison: May 8, 1988 ...