Alice Walker

Born

in Eatonton, Georgia, The United States

February 09, 1944

Website

http://www.alicewalkersgarden.com/

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Howard Zinn, Zora Neale Hurston

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Alice Walker, 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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An Open Letter to Paris Jackson from Alice Walker

An Open Letter to Paris Jackson From Alice Walker Dear Daughter, Dear Paris, Dear Kindred, Take a look at this: Her lowest moment came in 1948, when a vindictive neighbor accused Hurston of sexual relations with her 10-year-old son. The charges were patently false — Hurston had been in Honduras at the time, and the read more » Read more of this blog post »

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	The Color Purple 4.19 avg rating — 453,682 ratings — published 1982 — 184 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Possessing the Secret of Joy 4.07 avg rating — 13,551 ratings — published 1992 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Temple of My Familiar 4.05 avg rating — 12,823 ratings — published 1989 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.24 avg rating — 6,761 ratings — published 1983 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meridian 3.71 avg rating — 4,632 ratings — published 1976 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyday Use by Alice Walker, Barbara T. Christian (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 3,007 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Third Life Of Grange Copeland 4.05 avg rating — 3,089 ratings — published 1970 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By The Light Of My Father's Smile 3.86 avg rating — 2,778 ratings — published 1998 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories 4.01 avg rating — 2,568 ratings — published 1971 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women 4.05 avg rating — 1,782 ratings — published 1973 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Alice Walker

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

tags: acceptance, friendship

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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

tags: inspirational

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“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

tags: color, god, purple, religion

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