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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

National Book · 1983 · WinnerPulitzer Prize · 1983 · Winner
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Literary FictionISBN 9781453223970

Award History

AwardYearStatus
National Book Award for Fiction1983Winner
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1983Winner

About the Author

Alice WalkerAmerican

Alice Walker (born 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple (1982), the first African-American woman to receive the award for fiction, along with other notable works like Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland.

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