NEW YORK — "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker's “The Color Purple.” In nature, among the priestly ...
Forty years on, Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winner The Color Purple stands as a landmark of American fiction. The novel has been reconceived, with varying success, as a movie (by Steven ...