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  <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her critically acclaimed novel &lt;i&gt;The Color Purple&lt;/i&gt;.  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.


]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Howard Zinn, Zora Neale Hurston]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Eatonton, Georgia</hometown>  <born_at>02/09/1944</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Color Purple]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
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  <published>1982</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Possessing the Secret of Joy]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.99</average_rating>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Temple of My Familiar]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.01</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1955</ratings_count>
  <published>1989</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Meridian]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.56</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>846</ratings_count>
  <published>1976</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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  <published>1983</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[By the Light of My Father's Smile]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.79</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>551</ratings_count>
  <published>1998</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.94</average_rating>
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  <published>1981</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Third Life of Grange Copeland]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>378</ratings_count>
  <published>1970</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.90</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>339</ratings_count>
  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>309</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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