Alice Walker
author profile
born
February 09, 1944
gender
female
place of birth
Eatonton, Georgia, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction
influences
Howard Zinn, Zora Neale Hurston
about this author
Alice Malsenior Walker 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 the eighth child of sharecroppers. She is of African American, Cherokee, Scottish, and Irish lineage. Although she grew up in Georgia, she has stated that she often felt displaced there, and lives in Berkeley, California.
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker avg rating 4.13 — 17,530 ratings — published 1982 47 editions |
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Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker avg rating 4.00 — 1,863 ratings — published 1992 18 editions |
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The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker avg rating 4.03 — 1,745 ratings — published 1989 16 editions |
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Meridian by Alice Walker avg rating 3.58 — 754 ratings — published 1976 12 editions |
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker avg rating 4.05 — 666 ratings — published 1983 10 editions |
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By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker avg rating 3.79 — 502 ratings — published 1998 11 editions |
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker avg rating 3.96 — 382 ratings — published 1981 7 editions |
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker avg rating 3.79 — 330 ratings — published 1970 13 editions |
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart by Alice Walker avg rating 3.89 — 296 ratings — published 2000 7 editions |
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel by Alice Walker avg rating 3.70 — 268 ratings — published 2004 14 editions |
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
— Alice Walker
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— Alice Walker
"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
— Alice Walker
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— Alice Walker
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it"
— Alice Walker
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— Alice Walker
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