American Masters S28E2: Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
- Aired: 2014-02-07
- Time: 21:00:00
- Runtime: 90 minutes
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Overview
"Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth" is the first film biography of writer and activist Alice Walker. Most famous for her seminal novel "The Color Purple" for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, Walker was raised in poverty in the rural South during the violent and seismic social changes of mid-20th century America. Women, poverty and civil rights became the inherent themes in her writing.