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]

Feb 7, 1986 · The Color Purple: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery. A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an …

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Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable... A woman navigates life amid cruelty and hardship in the rural South before finding the strength to escape in Steven Spielberg's award-winning drama. …

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Filmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina, The Color Purple tells the coming-of-age story of a young African-American girl named Celie Harris and the brutal experiences she …

Dec 18, 1985 · Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is a richly-textured, moving film set in America's rural south that received an astounding 11 Oscar …

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to …

Nov 19, 2025 · The Color Purple, novel by Alice Walker, published in 1982. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, making Walker the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer for fiction.

Dec 15, 2023 · Walker’s third novel, The Color Purple, is published. It chronicles the life of a Black woman in the American South between 1909 and 1949 and draws inspiration from Walker’s …