she joins us at george maison university. thirty years. what are you thoughts about the color purple being around for thirty years. >> it seems so recent in many ways. >> what do you think about it staying power? >> i think it's very real -- relevant to people's lives they get a lot of now richment and self-sense out of it. it's very good for me that it's staying around. >> thirty anniversary. what is the campus doing? >> well, there is a large celebration of literacy and of learning from books called fall for the book. and i think it will be many wonderful writers talking about how they write, why we write, and communicating with the students and with the people, the townspeople and other people who come to hear us. >> and the whole campus is reading? "the color purple." >> i think and i hope that, you know, they get to the end of it. [laughter] >> what's the -- where did you -- where did color purple come from. >> it came partly because when i was nine and ten i lived with my grandparents, and i loved them very much. i wanted to, as an a