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 Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels."
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Steven Spielberg film about a woman from the south who struggles after being abused by her father. The film is based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.
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The movie was filmed in North Carolina. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and grossed over $142 million worldwide.
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