Walker's first short-story collection, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973), includes "Roselily" and other stories of vulnerable women looking for dignity and love.
The Color Purple (1982) is Walker's novel about Celie, a woman who finds inner strength after a life of abuse and abandonment. It won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award.
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983) is Walker's collection of "womanist prose," or essays, about women and art.
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching.....
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