1982. She appeared at George Maison university. Heres the twenty minute interview on booktv. For thirty years this book has been in bookstores the winner of the pulitzer prize, the National Book award. The author is alice walker, the name of the book the color purple. She joins us at George Maison university. Thirty years. What are you thoughts about the color purple being around for thirty years. It seems so recent in many ways. What do you think about it staying power . I think its very real relevant to peoples lives they get a lot of now richment and selfsense out of it. Its very good for me that its staying around. Thirty anniversary. What is the campus doing . Well, there is a large celebration of literacy and of learning from books called fall for the book. And i think it will be many wonderful writers talking about how they write, why we write, and communicating with the students and with the people, the townspeople and other people who come to hear us. And the whole campus is r