Salamishah Tillet: In Search of The Color Purple
About the Event:
It’s hard to overstate the literary and cultural influence of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Color Purple. In the nearly forty years since its publication, this story of Black women coming of age in early twentieth-century Georgia has inspired an Oscar-nominated film, a Tony-award-winning musical, and the work of many contemporary writers, including New York Times critic Salamishah Tillet. Join Tillet and WBEZ reporter Natalie Moore for a conversation about the ongoing significance of this seminal novel as detailed in Tillet’s In Search of The Color Purple.
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Event Details
Salamishah Tillet: In Search of The Color Purple
THIS PROGRAM IS PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
Endowed Program Sponsor
Spring Season Sponsor
2021 Lead Presenting Sponsor
[Event tile image description: The event image at the top left of the event page is a close up of the book cover In Search of the Color Purple. In the image an old sepia-colored farmhouse sits on a barren plain in front of a lilac-colored sky. Behind the house, as if sprouting from the roof, are larger-than-life purple flowers, reaching towards the sky.]