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Alice Walker


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

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Fiction

Influences
Howard Zinn, Zora Neale Hurston


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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Average rating: 4.19 · 591,114 ratings · 19,816 reviews · 179 distinct works • Similar authors
The Color Purple
4.22 avg rating — 510,221 ratings — published 1982 — 207 editions
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
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The Temple of My Familiar
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In Search of Our Mothers' G...
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Meridian
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The Third Life Of Grange Co...
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By The Light Of My Father's...
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman...
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“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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