duchessofhastings: The Color Purple was published 40 years ago...

duchessofhastings:

The Color Purple was published 40 years ago in 1982. It is an epistolary novel written by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.

It was later adapted into a film which released on February 7th, 1986 (US).

T HE COLOR PURPLE (1985) dir. Steven Spielberg