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spawned an Oscar-nominated movie, a Tony-winning musical, and, according to writer Salamishah Tillet, “changed the history of the novel.” The work, told from the point-of-view of Celie, a fourteen-year-old Black rape survivor growing up in Georgia under segregation at the turn of the twentieth century, would go on to win the National Book Award for Fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983, making Walker the first Black woman to garner those recognitions. photo: , In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece, Tillet delves into the backstory of the novel, explores why Walker’s book continues to resonate, and explains how the literary work became a cultural phenomenon, all while masterfully weaving together personal, cultural, and historical conversations about the text, including original interviews with Walker herself and players in the film and musical such as Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, and Danny Glover. 

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