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Alice Walker won the Pulitzer prize and the American Book Award for THE COLOR PURPLE

It's been ten years since the movie version of Walker's controversial Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, debuted in theaters across the country. Alice Walker won the Pulitzer prize and the American Book Award for THE COLOR PURPLE. She is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry including MERIDIAN, BY THE LIGHT OF MY FATHER'S SMILE and THE THIRD LIFE OF GRANGE COPELAND.

The Same River Twice" was a very good book and it gave so much insight into who Alice Walker is as a person. I never knew that Ms. Walker has Lyme disease and that she loved to garden

The Same River Twice" was a very good book and it gave so much insight into who Alice Walker is as a person. Walker has Lyme disease and that she loved to garden. The casting of certain individuals in certain roles shocked me it never dawned on that Tina Turner was their first choice in playing Shug Avery and that Lola Folana and Diana Ross were also considered for the part. When I finally saw the movie after it had been out on video cassette three years later I was shocked and enlightened all at the same moment. I was shocked at seeing two women kiss and enlightened to see Celie break away from her abusive husband and flourish as person.

The Same River Twice book. The Same River Twice" is an exciting collection of work based on Alice Walker's groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple. It includes the never-used screenplay Walker wrote, never-before-seen diary entries and letters, as well as new writings by the author on such topics as art, motherhood, illness, and relationships. Walker also discusses, for the "The Same River Twice" is an exciting collection of work based on Alice Walker's groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple.

Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist

Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she wrote the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels Meridian (1976) and The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970). An avowed feminist, Walker coined the term womanist to mean "A black feminist or feminist of color" in 1983.

The Same River Twice : Honoring the Difficult. In the early eightiesm three extraordinary events interrupted Alice Walker's peaceful, reclusive life-the publication of the bestselling novel The Color Purple, the Pulitzer Prize, and an offer from Spielberg to make her novel into a film. This book chronicles that period of transition from recluse to public figure, and invites us to contemplate, along with her, the true significance of unanticipated gifts.

The Same River Twice exposes Walker to criticism only because it exposes Walker

The Same River Twice exposes Walker to criticism only because it exposes Walker. She tells of her battle with Lyme disease, her breakup with a longtime lover, her earth-based spirituality; she apologizes for none of it. Walker is a fascinating literary figure, and it is not arrogant to assume that anyone is interested in such details if her readers are, in fact, eager for such disclosures. Beyond that, The Same River Twice brilliantly unveils an artist’s pain and joy at seeing her work take on a surprising life of its own. For writers and artists, it is full of valuable insights.

In the early 1980s, The Color Purple was a runaway success, it had won the Pulitzer Prize and Steven Spielberg was making the book into a film.

The real story behind the making of THE COLOR PURPLE in the author's own words In the early 1980s, The Color Purple was. In the early 1980s, The Color Purple was a runaway success, it had won the Pulitzer Prize and Steven Spielberg was making the book into a film. Yet behind all the critical success, Alice Walker suffered an extreme backlash as she became the object of attacks both personal and political. Her detractors claimed that she hated black men, that her work was injurious to black male and female relationships; and that her ideas about equality were harmful to the black community.

The Same River Twice. Compare and contrast Walker's book The Color Purple with the film. What are the similarities and differences between Walker's book and her own screenplay?

The Same River Twice. What are the similarities and differences between Walker's book and her own screenplay? How are Walker's screenplay and Meyjes' screenplay similar? How are they different? When Walker first viewed the film, The Color Purple, in a huge theater with only two other people, "everything about it seemed wrong," she said. But at the premiere in New York, with a magic wand in hand, she watched the film in a packed theater and was able to say she loved the film.

Author: Alice Walker ISBN 10: 0753819597. Used-like N : The book pretty much look like a new book. There will be no stains or markings on the book, the cover is clean and crisp, the book will look unread, the only marks there may be are slight bumping marks to the edges of the book where it may have been on a shelf previously. Read full description. See details and exclusions. The Same River Twice by Alice Walker (Paperback, 2005). Pre-owned: lowest price.