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Watch a documentary-quality video of Alice Walker author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar , and Possessing the Secret of Joy . The Color Purple won the 1983Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and was subsequently adapted into an Academy Award­­winning film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover. Walker is known for her deep and unflinching explorations of black life in America, particularly the experiences of black women. In her public life, Walker hasworked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.