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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [ 2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. [ 3][ 4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published ...
Published in 1983, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose is a collection composed of 36 separate pieces written by Alice Walker. The essays, articles, reviews, statements, and speeches were written between 1966 and 1982. [ 1] Many are based on her understanding of "womanist" theory. Walker defines "womanist" at the beginning of the ...
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 ...
Set in the farmhouses, churches and small-town world of rural Georgia, early in the 20th century, “The Color Purple” is not a pop musical, relying more on the traditions of gospel, jazz, big ...
Womanism is a feminist movement, primarily championed by Black feminists, originating in the work of African American author Alice Walker in her 1983 book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. Walker coined the term "womanist" in the short story Coming Apart in 1979.
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.
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [ 1]: 17 [ 2]: 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [ 3] The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were ...
Melvyn R. Leventhal. Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal (born March 18, 1943) [1] is an American attorney known for his work as a community organizer and lawyer in the 1960s–70s Civil Rights Movement, and for being the husband of author Alice Walker for ten years; they were the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi history.