Who is the author of 'The Color Purple'?

"The Color Purple" is a novel by the African-American writer Alice Walker, published in 1982. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1983.

About the novel:

• It is set in rural Georgia in the southern United States in the early 20th century.
• It is written as a series of letters, mostly by Celie, a poor Black girl who is abused by her father and then married off to a cruel man she calls "Mister".
• Celie writes letters to God and later to her sister Nettie, who works as a missionary in Africa.
• With the help of the strong, independent singer Shug Avery, Celie gradually finds her voice, independence and self-respect.
• The novel deals with racism, sexism, violence against women and the power of love and sisterhood.
• It was made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg (1985), a Broadway musical (2005) and a musical film (2023).

About Alice Walker:

• She was born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia.
• She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
• She coined the term "womanist" to describe Black feminism.
• She was active in the American civil rights movement.

Other famous African-American women writers:

• Maya Angelou: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969).
• Toni Morrison: "Beloved" (Pulitzer Prize, 1988) and "Song of Solomon"; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993.
• Zora Neale Hurston: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (1937); Alice Walker helped revive interest in her work.

Other American classics:

• Harper Lee: "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960).
• Scott Fitzgerald: "The Great Gatsby" (1925).

Why not the other options?

• ✗Maya Angelou wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
• ✗Toni Morrison wrote "Beloved".
• ✗Harper Lee wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird".