The Color Purple
Walker's career as a writer took flight with the publication of her third novel,
The Color Purple
, in
1982. Set in the early 1900s, the novel explores the female African-American experience through the life
and struggles of its narrator, Celie. Celie suffers terrible abuse at the hands of her father, and later, from
her husband. The compelling work won Walker both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book
Award for Fiction in 1983.
Three years later, Walker's story made it to the big screen: Steven Spielberg directed
The Color
Purple
, which starred Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, as well as Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.
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