The Color Purple

alice walker

This Pulitzer Prize winner and winner of the American Book Award tells the story of two sisters - one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South - who sustain their loyality to and trust in each other across time, distance and silence.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionfeminismlgbthistoricalqueerbanned booksbook clubafrican americanliterature

348 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1,1982

Series

The Color Purple Collection

Literary awards

pulitzer prize, national book award, national book critics circle award, townsend prize for fiction,

Places

georgia,

This edition

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1992 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ISBN: 9781568653501
ASIN: 1568653506
Language: English

Characters More characters

Nettie

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Albert

Albert Al was a Dauntless initiate, transferred from Candor. He was first introduced in the book as the crying boy in the bunk bed above her, and was found dead at the bottom of Dauntless pit. Albert had a crush on Tris but she rejected him.&h...
Celie

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Shug Avery

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Miss Millie

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About the author

alice walker

Noted American writer Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her stance against racism and sexism in such novels as The Color Purple (1982).

People awarded this preeminent author of stories, essays, and poetry of the United States. In 1983, this first African woman for fiction also received the national book award. Her other books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. In public life, Walker worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.