Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth

Director: Pratibha Parmar

Runtime: 84 minutes

USA 2013

Paramount Theatre, Bright Family Screening Room, Emerson College

This feature documentary is a unique story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the 20th Century. Making history as the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple, Alice Walker’s inspiring journey is also a story of a country and a people at the fault line of historical changes.