[Color Purple] Pictorial Broadside for Alice Walker Reading on University of Washington Campus October 1, 1983

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1983

Fine

[Color Purple] Pictorial Broadside for Alice Walker Reading on University of Washington Campus October 1, 1983

Broadside measures 10¼ x 15 inches. Fine condition with perhaps a hint of fading. 

Striking woodcut framing a portrait of Walker created for the October 1, 1983, reading by Alice Walker at the HUB Auditorium on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Designed by Kate Thompson and printed by Storefront Press.

Poster advertising Alice Walker's reading during her tour for "The Color Purple", her 1982 epistolary novel portraying the life of Celie, a poor African American girl. The gripping novel would win both the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.