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Alice Walker has published novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. In 1983, her third novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She was born to Georgia sharecropper parents, and her experience of poverty, racism, and African-American culture has informed her writing. Her love of books won her a scholarship to Atlanta’s famous Spelman College for Black women. She became a Civil Rights activist who continues to fight for justice internationally.

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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000
by Alice Walker
From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual.For the first...
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The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein...
The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein...
by Alice Walker
A “life-affirmative and eccentrically inspirational” collection from the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Kirkus Reviews).   In these glorious, offbeat, and compassionate tales, one of America’s preeminent authors shares her experiences raising and caring for a flock of affectionately named...
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The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
by Alice Walker
The National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple explores our modern world with “compassion, courage, and humor” (Booklist).   Alice Walker once ached for retirement, but in the turmoil of the Democratic primaries and the economic collapse of 2008, she realized she simply had a great deal more to say....
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The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)
by Alice Walker
A poetry collection of “playful and crooning lyricism” from the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Booklist).   In this dazzling new collection, Alice Walker offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a “lavishly gifted writer,” Walker imbues her poetry...
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Everyday Use (Women Writers)
Everyday Use (Women Writers)
by Alice Walker, Barbara T. Christian
Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center...
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By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Alice Walker
A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--Susannah, the writer-to-be; her sister, Magdalena; and their father and mother. There, amid an endangered band of mixed-race blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they could ever dream.Moving back and forth in...
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel
by Alice Walker
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest...
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Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit (Open Media Pamphlet Series)
Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit (Open Media Pamphlet Series)
by Alice Walker
Now more timely than ever, Alice Walker’s Sent By Earth reflects on the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and addresses the anger many Americans felt at the presumed perpetrator of the attack: Osama bin Laden. In powerfully reflective, nuanced, and above all heartfelt prose, Walker explores the seeds of hatred and resentment around the...
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart: Stories (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart: Stories (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Alice Walker
"These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called...
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
by Alice Walker
In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change--Walker begins with a moving...
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Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems
Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems
by Alice Walker
National Book Award Finalist: The love poems of an author caught up in a hopeful and sometimes violent upheaval.  When Alice Walker published her second collection of poems in 1976, she had spent the previous decade deeply immersed in the civil rights movement. In these verses are her most visceral reactions to a moment in history that...
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Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
by Alice Walker
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the Gaza Strip. Here is her...
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
by Alice Walker
In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us to feeling...
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