Alice Walker





Alice Walker

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born
in Eatonton, Georgia, The United States
February 09, 1944

gender
female

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influences
Howard Zinn, Zora Neale Hurston


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Alice Walker (b. 1944), one of the United States’ preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple, which also won the National Book Award. Her other books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. In her public life, Walker has worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.


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Martin Luther King, Jr. at homeBelow is a recently published article by Richard Friedman of the Federation of Jews in Birmingham, Alabama that brings to mind Martin Luther King, Jr. whom he mentions. King wrote his famous Letter From A Birmingham Jail when he was imprisoned in Birmingham for political activities against American apartheid, known more » Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 4.09 · 237,549 ratings · 6,323 reviews · 62 distinct works · Similar authors
The Color Purple
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 201,926 ratings — published 1982 — 100 editions
The Temple Of My Familiar
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 7,892 ratings — published 1989 — 25 editions
Possessing the Secret of Joy
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 7,465 ratings — published 1992 — 21 editions
In Search of Our Mothers' G...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 3,099 ratings — published 1983 — 14 editions
Meridian
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 2,411 ratings — published 1976 — 20 editions
By The Light Of My Father's...
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,538 ratings — published 1998 — 18 editions
Third Life Of Grange Copeland
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,292 ratings — published 1970 — 18 editions
You Can't Keep a Good Woman...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 1,205 ratings — published 1971 — 12 editions
The Way Forward Is With A B...
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 843 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
Now Is the Time to Open You...
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 878 ratings — published 2004 — 20 editions
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“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
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