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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. American author and activist (born 1944) For other people named Alice Walker, see Alice Walker (disambiguation). Alice Walker Walker in 2007 Born Alice Malsenior Walker (1944-02-09) February 9, 1944 (age 80) Eatonton, Georgia, U.S. Occupation Novelist short story writer poet political ...
The line "a genius of the South" comes from a poem by Jean Toomer, whom Walker applauds for his "sensitivity to women and his ultimate condescension toward them". [7] Walker's exploration for the black writers of the past connects to her search for the kind of books that are underrepresented in American literature.
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [a]The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit ...
Walker’s novel is many things, none more powerful than a reclamation of value, perspective and heritage from a person who’d been told she was worthless. Here, through song, the character of ...
In the 1970s, novelist and poet Alice Walker wrote a famous essay that brought Zora Neale Hurston and her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God back to the attention of the literary world. In 1982, Walker won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple.
The actress and author of 'Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me' on Alice Walker, 'Sex and the City,' and the Last Book She Bought.
It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. Now in the US she comes from the Olinka, (Alice Walker's fictional West African tribe) where female genital mutilation is practiced. Tashi marries an American man named Adam then leaves the Olinka because of the war.
Books by Alice Walker (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Works by Alice Walker" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.