The Color Purple By Alice Malsenior Walker

The Color Purple The author, Alice Malsenior Walker, was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia and lived her life as a writer as an African American novelist and poet up until 1976 when she died. The novel The Color Purple is one of the bestselling novels that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction as the book describes the discrimination of race, gender and ethnicity of African Americans and also about Feminism of women being mistreated by the dominance of men. During Walker’s childhood, she lived in poverty as she was a daughter of sharecroppers and her parents were supporting her eight siblings in the household. Walker lived in a society at the time of racial discrimination took place and attended segregated schools up until college. As she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College, she got the chance to study abroad and visiting Africa, managing to publish her first short poem “Once”.

On that note, she was later criticized and took everything personally and found the way to overcome it through reading and writing poetry. During the 1900’s, she became a social activist towards the civil rights movement and fought towards women rights. Within the time period, she wrote novels such as “The Temple of My Familiar”, “By the Light of My Father’s Smile”, and “Now is the Time to Open Your Heart” that relates to the topics of surviving slavery and the abuse towards them. Those literary novels help the reader demonstrate the characters perspective of the world they are in through their experiences the author writes in the stories which is seen in The Color