A convo & exploration with Sisters and Activists, Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet, on the book, In Search of the Color Purple.

Author Salamishah Tillet, of In Search of the Color Purple, joins us for the first time in a live conversation with her sister, Scheherazade, exploring the making and meaning Alice Walker’s critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple.

In Search of the Color Purple

Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, this is an exploration of the making and meaning Alice Walker’s critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple and features interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones and many others whose lives were so changed by the novel that they adapted to the big screen or Broadway stage, ensuring its reach new audiences for years to come.

In Search of The Color Purple delivers extraordinary insight into both the love and the struggle that made Ms. Walker’s exquisitely crafted novel a masterpiece. After reading Salamishah Tillet’s poignant book, neither readers nor writers will forget that it takes courage and audacity to write a novel that tells the reality of women’s lives.” -- Anita Hill, University Professor, Brandeis University