In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of Alice Walker's Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet

In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of Alice Walker's Masterpiece

Salamishah Tillet

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nonfiction biography history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells ...

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