"The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that 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.Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture."@en . . "The Color Purple"@en . . "PS3573.A425 C6 1982" . . "813/.54 19" . "8221433" . "0-15-119153-0" .