United States, California, 37.25022, -119.75126United States, Georgia, Putnam County, Eatonton, 33.3268, -83.38851980/2022Eatonton native Alice Walker's award-winning novel The Color Purple (1982) chronicles the self-empowerment and growth of the character Celie, a poor Black woman living in rural Georgia.Photograph of author and Eatonton, Georgia native Alice Walker.Walker is an African American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/color-purpleForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/color-purpleForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaAfrican American authors--CaliforniaAfrican American women authors--CaliforniaAfrican American novelists--CaliforniaAfrican American women novelists--CaliforniaAfrican American poets--CaliforniaAfrican American women poets--CaliforniaWomen--CaliforniaAfrican American women--CaliforniaAuthors, American--CaliforniaWomen authors, American--CaliforniaNovelists, American--CaliforniaWomen novelists, American--CaliforniaPoets, American--CaliforniaWomen poets, American--CaliforniaAlice WalkerStillImage