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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. Her works have been celebrated for elucidating the experiences of African-Americans and, in particular, African-American women. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Color Purple; since then, the book has been several times adapted to film and theater. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.
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An African American mother prepares dinner with her shy daughter as they wait for her other daughter, an educated graduate trying to embrace her African roots, to arrive. In a tense reunion, the educated daughter's newfound identity and ideals clash with the family's established lifestyle.
A Black mother enlists rootworkers to dole out revenge on a White woman whose merciless actions during the Great Depression caused her children to starve.