This story of 2 devoted sisters earned Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author | MAKERS Video  Alice Walker on living through poverty and racism; giving her ancestors a voice in "The ... children's books, essays, short stories, and novels, most notably 1983's "The Color Purple" for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction  the first ... Her own work has been translated into more than two dozen languages, and her...
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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Is it Really All That Distinguished ...  Apr 8, 2010 ... Poor F. Scott Fitzgerald never won a Pulitzer Prize. ... None of those overlap, as only two post-1950 Pulitzer winners were on the list and .... 1929  Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin .... So that discounted great short story collections from the major writers of the ..... 1983  The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
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Alice Walker Biography - eNotes.com  Alice Walker was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (1983) for her novel The Color Purple. .... Although Walker is a devoted mother, in her essay One Child of One's Own, she openly and honestly describes her ... Her literary contribution includes novels, short stories, essays, and poetry.
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Alice Walker - Wikipedia  Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. .... In 2013, Alice Walker released two new books, one of them entitled The...
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Alice Walker - Author, Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist ...  Feb 6, 2015 ... Alice Walker is an African-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist known for ... Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1982 novel, The ... in the right eye with a BB pellet while playing with two of her brothers. ... She graduated in 1965the same year that she published her first short story.
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Alice Walker | Poetry Foundation  "I want to say," he commented, "that The Color Purple is an American novel of ... Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, a southern town where most African ... Book Review, called the stories in You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down "too partisan. ... Ford, for example, asserted that the author's "polemics on . . . political and...
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Booth Tarkington | Reading the Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction  1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington ... Second of all, Alice Adams is less racist. ... thought similarly, because Sherman never again served on the Novel jury after 1922. Thus Booth Tarkington won his second of two Pulitzer Prizes in the Novel Category, becoming ... 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington.
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Some Letters Went to God - The New York Times  Jul 25, 1982 ... ithout doubt, Alice Walker's latest novel is her most impressive. ... The tale is told primarily through her own letters, which, out of isolation and ... vivacious and determinedly independent blues singer named Shug Avery, Celie is ... that mark the relationships between Miss Walker's black men and women.
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Alice Adams (novel) - Wikipedia  Alice Adams is a 1922 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and, more famously, in 1935 by George Stevens. The narrative centers on the character of a young woman (the eponymous ... passing Frincke's Business College on the way with a shudder (as she sees...
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Summary/Reviews: By the light of my father's smile :  The story of an American family--would-be writer Susannah, her sister ... accompany their anthropologist parents, who are posing as missionaries, to a remote ... the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple.
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Free celie Essays and Papers  The Transformation of Celie in "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker - Events in history ... and sexism but remained strong in her faith in God and overcame these ..... Most of the letters were written by Celie and some by her sister Nettie. ..... It was adapted from a novel written by Alice Walker that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.
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The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult | Alice Walker | The ...  By Alice Walker ... In Walker's important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, ... County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal ... It is not your run-of-the-mill making of movie book.
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Eudora Welty - Wikipedia  Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909  July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. ... Born, Eudora Alice Welty ... In 1973 she received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, The Optimist's Daughter.
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Book Summary - CliffsNotes  Alice Walker's The Color Purple weaves an intricate mosaic of women joined by ... In the first few letters, Celie tells God that she has been raped by her father and ... Celie then turns her attention to protecting her sister, Nettie, from her father's ... Celie initially writes to God ... to share her tragic story and seek understanding...
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Game Show NewsNet  Apr 21, 2006 ... She bets $2000 on this: this 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner is written in the form of letters, mostly from Celie to her sister & to God. "Oh my goodness...
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Alice Walker Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of 'A ...  Walker's writings include novels, stories, essays and poems. ... The Color Purple won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 as well as the ... Walker also won the 1986 O. Henry Award for her short story "Kindred Spirits", published in...
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Alice Walker - Wikipedia  Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. .... The novel follows a young troubled black woman fighting her way through...
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker  Reviews, Discussion ...  The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for...
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Summary/Reviews: Collected stories and other writings /  Main Author: Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980. ... volume in 1965 they won their author both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. ... Her Collected Stories (1965), which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the ... Her one and only full-length novel, Ship of Fools (1962), 20 years in the writing, "is the story of a voyage.
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The Same River Twice - The New York Times  Jan 14, 1996 ... he filming of her novel ''The Color Purple'' in 1985 came at a traumatic time for Alice Walker. ... She has often been asked her opinion of the film, which was criticized for not being true to the book; but her own synopsis and ... the liner notes she wrote for the soundtrack album, a summary of the protests from...
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Alice Walker Biography - Google Docs  She spent the next seven to eight years reading voraciously and writing poems. ... The Color Purple is a series of ninety letters that Celie, Walker's outwardly silent ... In addition to being a major author of notable literature, Walker has enlarged the ..... A gunshot wound left her blind in one eye; she became shy and withdrew...