With a book by Marsha Norman, and music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, The Color Purple is a portrait of Black women in rural Georgia during the first half of the ...

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Georgia’s own Alice Walker was born in the small town of Eatonton in February 1944, and went on to make history with her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple." Now, for the first time ...

Four decades of fandom; four decades of criticism: "The Color Purple" has been a cultural flashpoint almost since the beginning. Because of the decades-long presence of the first "The Color Purple ...