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The Color Purple:
The Story of an American Masterpiece
Author
Salamishah Tillet
Contributor
Foreword by Gloria Steinem
Afterword by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Content
xvii + 205 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2021
Publisher
New York: Abrams Press/Abrams
Description
Combination of biography, cultural history, literary criticism, and memoir that covers the novel, its 1985 film adaptation, and the Broadway musical.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography
Literature and Literary Criticism
ISBN
9781419735301 (cloth); 9781419735363 (pap.); 9781683356851 (ebook)
Citation
Tillet, Salamishah.
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The Color Purple:
The Story of an American Masterpiece.
New York: Abrams Press/Abrams, 2021. Sylvia. Accessed June 13, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL3894.
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