Synopsis
Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman on how Alice Walker's novel ''The Color Purple'' legitimised her need to be a writer. She writes how the novel was ''about the triumph of the human spirit''. Reading it for the first in her early 20s it ''blasted open a door which I thought was locked and barred to me. Actually it blasted open a door which I didn't appreciate even existed. A door that could lead to a writing career of my own... this book and its author showed that it was possible for me to not only be an author but to have my own voice.''
Further Information
Other Archive resources
Novels That Shaped Our World | The Color Purple
An introduction to the plot, character and context of Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple'.
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth | Alice Walker reads 'the God section' from 'The Color Purple'
Alice Walker reads out a section from 'The Color Purple' that has been referred to as 'the God section'.