American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1709 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Alice Walker and *The Color Purple*
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The idea
Walker grew up in rural Georgia, the daughter of a sharecropper and a maid, attended Spelman and Sarah Lawrence, joined the Black Arts and civil rights movements, and edited at Ms. magazine. The Color Purple, of nineteen eighty-two, won her the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
In practice
Rural Georgia to a Pulitzer.
Where people slip
The novel was later a widely seen film.
Your place on the trail
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