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The Color Purple
novel by Alice Walker
This article is about the novel. For the film, see The Color Purple ( film). For the film, see The Color Purple ( film).
For other uses, see The Color Purple (disambiguation).
The Color Purple is a epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.[1][a]
The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the Most Frequently Challenged Books of – at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence.[2][3] In , the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels."[4]
The novel has been adapted into various other media, including feature films in and , a musical, and a radio serial on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.
Plot
Celie, a poor African-American girl, lives in rural