About Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple.
Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of sharecroppers. As well as being African American, her family has Cherokee, Scottish and Irish lineage.
Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of sharecroppers. As well as being African American, her family has Cherokee, Scottish and Irish lineage.
Novels
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
Meridian (1976)
The Color Purple (1982)
The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
Finding the Green Stone (1991)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004)
Meridian (1976)
The Color Purple (1982)
The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
Finding the Green Stone (1991)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004)
Omnibus
Collections
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
Revolutionary Petunias (poems) (1973)
Once (poems) (1976)
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning: New Poems, 1971-1977 (poems) (1979)
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (1982)
Alice Walker Poetry (poems) (1985)
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (poems) (1985)
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 (poems) (1991)
Giving Birth, Finding Form (1993) (with Isabel Allende, Jean Shinoda Bolen)
Quartet of Stories (1993) (with Maya Angelou, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior)
Everyday Use (1994)
The Complete Stories (1994)
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (poems) (2003)
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (poems) (2003)
Collected Poems (poems) (2005)
Revolutionary Petunias (poems) (1973)
Once (poems) (1976)
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning: New Poems, 1971-1977 (poems) (1979)
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (1982)
Alice Walker Poetry (poems) (1985)
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (poems) (1985)
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 (poems) (1991)
Giving Birth, Finding Form (1993) (with Isabel Allende, Jean Shinoda Bolen)
Quartet of Stories (1993) (with Maya Angelou, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior)
Everyday Use (1994)
The Complete Stories (1994)
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (poems) (2003)
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (poems) (2003)
Collected Poems (poems) (2005)
Picture Books
Non fiction
Life of Thomas Lodge (1974)
In Search of Our Mother's Garden (1983)
Art Against Apartheid Works for Freedom (1986)
Langston Hughes: American Poet (1986)
Living By the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987 (1988)
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation And the Sexual Blinding of Women (1993) (with Pratibha Parmar)
Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference (1994)
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
Banned (1996)
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel And Adventure (1997)
Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center And Pentagon (2001)
There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me (2006)
Langston Hughes (2006)
Why War Is Never a Good Idea (2007)
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light In A Time of Darkness (2007)
In Search of Our Mother's Garden (1983)
Art Against Apartheid Works for Freedom (1986)
Langston Hughes: American Poet (1986)
Living By the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987 (1988)
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation And the Sexual Blinding of Women (1993) (with Pratibha Parmar)
Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference (1994)
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
Banned (1996)
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel And Adventure (1997)
Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center And Pentagon (2001)
There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me (2006)
Langston Hughes (2006)
Why War Is Never a Good Idea (2007)
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light In A Time of Darkness (2007)
Anthologies containing stories by Alice Walker
Short stories
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Awards
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