The Color Purple
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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.
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The Color Purple (1985 film)
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The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic period drama film, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes, based on the 1982 novel by Alice Walker. Spielberg's eighth film as a director, it
The Color Purple
…listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels." The novel has been adapted into various other media, including feature films in 1985 and 2023, a 2005 musical, and a 2008 radio serial on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. Celie, a poor African-American girl, lives in rural Georgia in the…
Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
Whoopi Goldberg was known primarily as a stage performer when she was cast as Celie Harris.
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