In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American MasterpieceMixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walkers critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the rst black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the