In this task you will be given a passage and a yes/no question based on the passage. You should answer the question using the information from the passage.

passage: The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
 question: is the colour purple based on a true story?
No