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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. [1] [a]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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. American author and activist (born 1944) For other people named Alice Walker, see Alice Walker (disambiguation). Alice Walker Walker in 2007 Born Alice Malsenior Walker (1944-02-09) February 9, 1944 (age 80) Eatonton, Georgia, U.S. Occupation Novelist short story writer poet political ...
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Set in the farmhouses, churches and small-town world of rural Georgia, early in the 20th century, “The Color Purple” is not a pop musical, relying more on the traditions of gospel, jazz, big ...
Then: Whoopi Goldberg. Celie is the heart of The Color Purple, and Goldberg’s portrayal of her in the 1985 film was devastating and revelatory. In 1985, the actress and comedian told the late ...
By the 14th century, the secrets of Tyrian purple were lost, according to the University of Chicago Library's 2007 exhibition “The Origins of Color.” But all hail Tyrian purple!
It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. Now in the US she comes from the Olinka, (Alice Walker's fictional West African tribe) where female genital mutilation is practiced. Tashi marries an American man named Adam then leaves the Olinka because of the war.
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is simply too monumental a work to be reduced to a single, “definitive” adaptation. Like any classic, the 1982 epistolary novel – in which Celie, a Black ...