Nominated as finalists in Fiction in 1983: Rabbis and Wives, by Chaim Grade (Knopf) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, by Anne Tyler (Knopf) The Jury. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) Share: Twitter Facebook Email. Celie's attempts to get free of the men in her life, to discover her sexuality and to learn to love (both primarily through the female singer Shug Avery), to gain both her social and emotional independence, to find spiritual satisfaction and connection to God, and to find Nettie form the drama of the book, which is constructed as a series of letters between Celie and God, and between Celie and Nettie. For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author. Over the course of her 50-year career, she has worked as an artist, activist and educator, and she was a contributor to the feminist. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel The Color Purple and close to 40 other books. _ when both try to rape her, too, at different times. Walker, whose actual birthday is February 9, was born in Eatonton to parents who worked as sharecroppers. Celie tries to protect her sister, Nettie, and helps her to run away first from Pa and then from Mr. This often-quoted review points out major flaws in The Color Purple, including the book’s contrived and overly dramatic plotting. _, who wants her only for her work ethic and regularly beats her. The New York Review of Books, August 12, 1982, 3536. As a teenager she is repeatedly raped by her father (later revealed to be her stepfather), Pa, and gives birth to two children, Olivia and Adam, whom her stepfather gives away and who are raised by a missionary couple. The novel's protagonist, at the beginning of the novel Celie is quiet, passive, and able to express herself only through letters to God.
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