Step 1 : Introduction to the question "1. Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction work. What was the name of the novel Alice Walker wrote, that featured the life of a black woman who was abused by her father and husband?"
...1. The Color Purple 2. To Kill a Mockingbird 3. The Help 4. The Color Black Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The story of the life of an abused black woman in the 1930s brought attention to issues such as sexism, racism, child abuse, and gender roles. The narrator and protagonist, Celli, tells the story of how she was abused by her father, forced to marry a man, and was separated from her sister. She has a loveless marriage and develops a relationship with another female. She finally finds letters from her sister that her husband hid, telling of her sister Nettie's experience with missionaries. Eventually Celli is reunited with her sister and her family after thirty years. The book received many awards but it also received many criticisms. For many years it was a target of book censors.
