Alice Walker, ‘Color Purple’ Cast Celebrate Shug-Celie Romance in Remake: “We Really Needed to See That Love Is Love” The new musical adaptation of Alice Walker's book explores the romance ...

Fantasia Barrino in 'The Color Purple' Courtesy of Warner Bros. Alice Walker started the phenomenon with her Pulitzer-winning 1982 book, and three years later Steven Spielberg turned it into a ...

‘The Color Purple’ Review: Alice Walker’s Novel Lends Itself to the Blues, as Well as Stirring Musical’s Sense of Spiritual Uplift Reviewed at Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, Nov. 18 ...

In Steven Spielberg’s 1985 feature adaptation of The Color Purple, the characters of Celie and Shug share a chaste kiss, but not much else hints at the love affair that was integral to author ...

If you’re on the fence about catching yet another “Color Purple” adaptation, I get it. Since Alice Walker’s novel was published in 1982, the world has experienced Steven Spielberg’s ...

Walker’s novel is many things, none more powerful than a reclamation of value, perspective and heritage from a person who’d been told she was worthless. Here, through song, the character of ...

Object Details Author Walker, Alice 1944- Notes Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1983. Summary The lives of two sister--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she ...

Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Colored Purple,” will speak at this year’s Mississippi Book Festival as the event returns to an in-person format after two … ...

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, the novel is set in the American South in the early 1900s and tells the story of several poor Black women.

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, the novel is set in the American South in the early 1900s and tells the story of several poor Black women.