Author
Alice Walker
Birth Date
February 9, 1944
(82 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Alice Walker is an American novelist, poet, and activist known for her powerful writing on race, gender, and social justice. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia and grew up in a poor African American family in the rural South. Her early experiences with segregation and inequality strongly influenced her work.
Walker is best known for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which tells the story of African American women in the early 20th century American South. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award, and was later adapted into a film and a musical. Her writing often highlights the struggles and resilience of Black women, as well as themes of identity, oppression, and empowerment.
In addition to her literary achievements, Walker has been active in civil rights and feminist movements. She is also credited with helping revive interest in the work of Zora Neale Hurston. Today, she is considered one of the most important voices in contemporary American literature.
Walker is best known for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which tells the story of African American women in the early 20th century American South. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award, and was later adapted into a film and a musical. Her writing often highlights the struggles and resilience of Black women, as well as themes of identity, oppression, and empowerment.
In addition to her literary achievements, Walker has been active in civil rights and feminist movements. She is also credited with helping revive interest in the work of Zora Neale Hurston. Today, she is considered one of the most important voices in contemporary American literature.
Books
For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately...
Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six essays, Walker contemplates her...
Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of the dozens of astonishing characters in The Temple of My Familiar, all of whom are dealing in some way with the legacy of the African...
Alice Walker sums up the premise and purpose for this year of poems in her Preface: "I was born into a family of eight siblings. I am the youngest. Five of us have died. I share losses, health...
From the author the New York Times Book Review calls "a lavishly gifted writer," this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision to...
Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We...
Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married many times, she has lived a life rich with explorations of the natural world and the human soul. Now, at fifty-seven, she leaves her...
Walker’s complete poems, including new and previously unpublished verse, collected for the first time-with author’s notes that provide historical perspective on spiritual and political issues of the...
This collection builds on Alice Walker's earlier work, the much-praised In Love & Trouble. But unlike her first collection of stories, the women in these tenderly wrought tales face their problems...
In Love & Trouble 2004
Here are stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in tow, with doubt and regret, with memories of lost loves, with lovers who have their own hard pasts and hard edges....
In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature...
Grange Copeland, a deeply conflicted and struggling tenant farmer in the Deep South of the 1930s, leaves his family and everything he’s ever known to find happiness and respect in the cold cities of...
Meridian 2003
Meridian Hill is a young woman at an Atlanta college attempting to find her place in the 1960s revolution for racial and social equality. She discovers the limits beyond which she will not go for the...
Sent by Earth 2001
Now more timely than ever, Alice Walker’s Sent By Earth reflects on the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and addresses the anger many Americans felt at the presumed perpetrator of the attack: Osama bin...
"These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded...
A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother. And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks...
In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide...
The Same River Twice 1997
The Same River Twice is a collection of work based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Color Purple. The collection includes essays, journal entries, and the screenplay she never...
The Color Purple 1992
Told through a series of letters, The Color Purple follows Celie, a young Black woman growing up in the rural American South in the early 20th century. Subjected to abuse and separated from her sister...
Living By The Word 1989
In meditative and passionate prose, these provocative essays explore feminist, environmental, and political issues and shed new light on racial debates, including the controversy surrounding Walker’s...
These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who...