Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

Fri, Feb 23 2018
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Central Library, Dweck Center

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth BPL Presents Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth litfilm Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth


Documentary, dir. by
Pratibha Parmar
US, 2013, 90 min.

Writer, self-confessed renegade and human rights activist, Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple, later turned into a Hollywood movie and a Broadway musical. Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth traces the inspiring journey of an extraordinary woman, from her birth in a paper-thin shack in the cotton fields of Putnam County, Georgia, to her recognition as a key writer of the 20th century.

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Documentary, dir. by
Pratibha Parmar
US, 2013, 90 min.

Writer, self-confessed renegade and human rights activist, Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple, later turned into a Hollywood movie and a Broadway musical. Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth traces the inspiring journey of an extraordinary woman, from her birth in a paper-thin shack in the cotton fields of Putnam County, Georgia, to her recognition as a key writer of the 20th century.

Return to full schedule here.

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