The Color Purple Alice Walker

Notes

1. ^ Walker won the 1983 award for hardcover Fiction. From 1980 to 1983 in National Book Awards history there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including the 1983 Fiction.

Citations

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6. ^ "April 18, 1983: Alice Walker Becomes the First Woman of Color to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
7. ^ a b c Walker, Alice (1982). The Color Purple: A Novel (First ed.). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-119153-0. OCLC 8221433.
8. ^ "1983 – National Book Awards Fiction Winners". www.nbafictionblog.org. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
9. ^ "Some Letters Went to God". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
10. ^ Bobo, Jacqueline (January 1, 1989). "Sifting Through the Controversy: Reading The Color Purple". Callaloo (39): 332–42. doi:10.2307/2931568. JSTOR 2931568.
11. ^ Shipp, E. R. (January 27, 1986). "Blacks in Heated Debate Over 'The Color Purple"". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
12. ^ "100 'most inspiring' novels revealed by BBC Arts". BBC News. November 5, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019. The reveal kickstarts the BBC's year-long celebration of literature.
13. ^ Office of Intellectual Freedom (March 26, 2013). "100 most frequently challenged books: 1990-1999". American Library Association. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
14. ^ Office of Intellectual Freedom (March 26, 2013). "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009". American Library Association. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
15. ^ Office of Intellectual Freedom (September 9, 2020). "Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019". American Library Association. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
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18. ^ Rotten Tomatoes page for The Color Purple
19. ^ Roger Ebert's review of The Color Purple
20. ^ John Fleming. "Passion for 'Purple' has Local Roots". "Saint Petersburg Times". Dec. 12, 2005
21. ^ Sony Radio Academy Awards 2009: Dramas
22. ^ a b Kit, Borys (November 2, 2018). "Spielberg, Oprah Bringing Color Purple to Big Screen (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on December 11, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
23. ^ Rubin, Rebecca (December 23, 2020). "Warner Bros. to Release Mad Max: Fury Road Prequel and The Color Purple Musical in Theaters in 2023". Variety. Archived from the original on December 24, 2020. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
24. ^ Letter from Alice Walker to Publishers at Yediot Books
25. ^ Jewish Press, Alan Dershowitz: Alice Walker’s Bigotry, June 20, 2012.
26. ^ AP, "Alice Walker rejects Israeli translation of book", June 20, 2012. Yahoo News