Alice Walker's The Color Purple

Alice Walker's The Color Purple is one of the most celebrated and groundbreaking novels of the past forty years. The book tells the story of Celie, an African American teenager raised in rural isolation in Georgia, who narrates her life through painfully honest letters to God. Later made into a film starring Whoopi Goldberg and a Broadway musical, The Color Purple has endured as a true American classic.

In this entry in Ig's Bookmarked series, award-winning author Bernice L. McFadden writes about how The Color Purple has changed the world of literature, as well as the enormous effect that the novel has had on her life as a writer.