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Alice Walker is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple. She is also a human rights activist, especially in the Anti-War and Anti-FGM movements.
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Fast Facts
- Born: February 9th, 1944
- Origin: Eatonton, Georgia
- Has one daughter, Rebecca Walker
- Practicing vegetarian
- First African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize
- Found Zora Neale Hurston's grave site and placed marker on it
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Notable Works
- 1970: The Third Life of Grange Copeland
- 1973: Everyday Use
- 1973: In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women
- 1973: Roselily
- 1976: Meridian (novel)
- 1982: The Color Purple
- 1982: You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories
- 1983: Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
- 1986: Am I Blue?
- 1988: To Hell With Dying
- 1989: The Temple of My Familiar
- 1991: Finding the Green Stone
- 1992: Possessing the Secret of Joy
- 1994: The Complete Stories
- 1998: By The Light of My Father's Smile
- 2000: The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
- 2005: Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart
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Quotes
- "Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week." - Alice Walker
- "Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence." - Alice Walker
- "It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all." - Alice Walker
- "I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence." - Alice Walker
- "...For me, Black women are the most fascinating creations in the world." - Alice Walker
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"She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet." Alice Walker -http://bit.ly/LKTRU
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." ~ Alice Walker
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Wondering what tomorrow will bring? "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise " Alice Walker #goodnight
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View All Alice Walker Questions (30) | Ask a Questionwhats your first book called? (1 Answer)The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) http://www.amazon.com/Third-Life-Grange-Copeland/dp/0156028360/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s;=books&qid;=1234289048&sr;=8-1 read moreWhat awards has Alice Walker won? (1 Answer)According to her web site she has won... "In 1983, The Color Purple won The Pulitzer Prize, as well as the National Book Award . She also won the 1986 ... read moreDo you think Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell is too young for Paul Walker? (3 Answers)I totally disagree with the relationship due to their age when they started dating. At 16, kids are too young to know what they really want in life. Now, at ... read moreWho is Alice Ripley? (1 Answer)A Tony Award-winning American actress, singer and songwriter. For a detailed background on her, click the links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Ripley http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727997/ http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=57847 read more
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"She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet." Alice Walker -http://bit.ly/LKTRU
@kalifilms | July 09, 2009 09:09 AM -
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." ~ Alice Walker
@aliving | July 09, 2009 05:47 AM -
Wondering what tomorrow will bring? "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise " Alice Walker #goodnight
@Blairsden | July 09, 2009 05:14 AM -
#quote "expect nothing, live frugally on surprise--alice walker
@esl_is_king | July 09, 2009 03:24 AM -
http://twitpic.com/9qlcg - I think it pisses God off if u walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and dont notice it-alice walker
@rightthatsyeah | July 09, 2009 12:32 AM
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"She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet." Alice Walker -http://bit.ly/LKTRU
@kalifilms | July 09, 2009 09:09 AM -
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." ~ Alice Walker
@aliving | July 09, 2009 05:47 AM -
Wondering what tomorrow will bring? "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise " Alice Walker #goodnight
@Blairsden | July 09, 2009 05:14 AM -
#quote "expect nothing, live frugally on surprise--alice walker
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@rightthatsyeah | July 09, 2009 12:32 AM
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel - $14.95
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 spiritu...
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart - $14.00
"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 ...
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose - $16.00
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as ablack woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces rangingfrom the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays aboutother wr...
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Charlie Rose with Moshe Safdie; Stuart Stevens; Alice Walker (June 27, 1997) - $24.95
Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie talks to Charlie about building the Yitzhak Rabin memorial as well as his new book, The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision. Next, author Stuart Stevens tells Charlie about the restaurants he...
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness - $23.95
A beautifully packaged book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the incomparable Pulitzer Prize-winner—a woman who has devoted her life to befriending the earth.From the Introduction: "In f...
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"She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet." Alice Walker -http://bit.ly/LKTRU
@kalifilms | July 09, 2009 09:09 AM -
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." ~ Alice Walker
@aliving | July 09, 2009 05:47 AM -
Wondering what tomorrow will bring? "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise " Alice Walker #goodnight
@Blairsden | July 09, 2009 05:14 AM -
#quote "expect nothing, live frugally on surprise--alice walker
@esl_is_king | July 09, 2009 03:24 AM -
http://twitpic.com/9qlcg - I think it pisses God off if u walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and dont notice it-alice walker
@rightthatsyeah | July 09, 2009 12:32 AM
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Alice Walker on Amazon | View All
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel - $14.95
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 spiritu...
Amazon -
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart - $14.00
"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 ...
Amazon -
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose - $16.00
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as ablack woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces rangingfrom the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays aboutother wr...
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Charlie Rose with Moshe Safdie; Stuart Stevens; Alice Walker (June 27, 1997) - $24.95
Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie talks to Charlie about building the Yitzhak Rabin memorial as well as his new book, The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision. Next, author Stuart Stevens tells Charlie about the restaurants he...
Amazon -
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness - $23.95
A beautifully packaged book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the incomparable Pulitzer Prize-winner—a woman who has devoted her life to befriending the earth.From the Introduction: "In f...
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Alice Walker on Amazon | View All
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel - $14.95
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 spiritu...
Amazon -
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart - $14.00
"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 ...
Amazon -
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose - $16.00
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as ablack woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces rangingfrom the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays aboutother wr...
Amazon -
Charlie Rose with Moshe Safdie; Stuart Stevens; Alice Walker (June 27, 1997) - $24.95
Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie talks to Charlie about building the Yitzhak Rabin memorial as well as his new book, The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision. Next, author Stuart Stevens tells Charlie about the restaurants he...
Amazon -
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness - $23.95
A beautifully packaged book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the incomparable Pulitzer Prize-winner—a woman who has devoted her life to befriending the earth.From the Introduction: "In f...
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Google News: Alice Walker http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&q=%22Alice+Walker%22+-cancer&output=rss
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New York Times: Alice Walker News
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Guardian Unlimited: No retreat (2006)
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Ms. Magazine: "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women ..." (2002)
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Cross Currents: Alice Walker's Ecospirituality (1998)
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Alice Walker Personal Timeline
- February 9, 1944: Born Eastonton, Georgia
- 1952: Accidentally blinded in right eye
- 1961: Attends Spelman College
- 1963: Transfers to Sarah Lawrence College
- 1965: Graduates from Sarah Lawrence, joins rural South voter registration drive
- 1967: Marries Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal
- 1969: Daughter Rebecca born
- 1970: Receives NEA Discovery Award
- 1972: Teaches at Wellesley College and begins first Woman's Studies course
- 1974: Wins Rosenthal Foundation Award for In Love and Trouble
- 1976: Divorces Mel Levethal amicably
- 1983: Wins Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple and National Book Award for Hardcover Fiction
- 1984: Wins Lillian Smith Book Award for In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose
- 1985: The Steven Spielberg movie The Color Purple released
- 1986: Wins O. Henry Award for short story Kindred Spirit
- 1993: Traveled to Africa with Pratibha Parmar to film Warrior Marks
- 1996: Alice Walker letter to President Clinton
- 2000: Receives Library of Congress honors
- 2006: Inducted into the California Hall of Fame
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Poetry | Add a Link
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1968: ''Once: Poems''
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1973: ''Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems''
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1979: ''Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning''
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1984: ''Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems''
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1991: ''Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems''
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2003: ''Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth''
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2003: ''A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings''
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2005: ''Collected Poems''
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1968: ''Once: Poems''
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Non-fiction | Add a Link
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1983: ''In Search of My Mother's Garden: Womanist Prose''
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1989: ''Living by the Word''
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1993: ''Warrior Marks'' written with Pratibha Parmar
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1996: ''The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult''
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1997: ''Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism''
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1997: ''Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel And Adventure''
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1999: ''Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation''
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2001: ''Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing ...''
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2006: ''We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness ...''
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1983: ''In Search of My Mother's Garden: Womanist Prose''
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Children's Books
- 1991: Finding the Green Stone
- 2002: Langston Hughes: American Poet
- 2006: There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me
- 2007: Why War Is Never a Good Idea illustrated by Stefano Vitale
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