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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. Wikipedia
Originally published: 1982
Author: Alice Walker
Genres: Novel, Epistolary novel, and Domestic Fiction
Characters: Celie, Shug Avery, Nettie Harris, and more
Narrator: Celie
Dewey Decimal: 813.54 19
ISBN: 0-15-119153-0
Citations edit · "National Book Awards – 1983". · "The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009". · "Alice Walker – biography". · "BBC – The Big Read".
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Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and ...