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Alice Walker

Born

in Eatonton, Georgia, The United States

February 09, 1944

Website

https://alicewalkersgarden.com/

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, African American

Influences

Howard Zinn, Zora Neale Hurston

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Noted American writer Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her stance against racism and sexism in such novels as The Color Purple (1982).

People awarded this preeminent author of stories, essays, and poetry of the United States. In 1983, this first African woman for fiction also received 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 public life, Walker worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.

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The New World is All Of Us.

Thank you, South Africa, for remembering how it has felt to face a people’s devastation seemingly all alone. To have learned valiant soul by valiant soul that you were not unaccompanied in your struggle. That if you rose, others would rise with you. Like Gaza you bled for so long, it seemed to be your fate. What a cost for you, so many deaths and humiliations, to awaken a world in unified courag Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.24 · 893,289 ratings · 43,797 reviews · 249 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Color Purple 4.28 avg rating — 761,558 ratings — published 1982 — 386 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Possessing the Secret of Joy 4.09 avg rating — 15,850 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Temple of My Familiar 4.05 avg rating — 15,071 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.30 avg rating — 8,383 ratings — published 1983 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meridian 3.75 avg rating — 6,658 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyday Use by Alice Walker, Barbara T. Christian (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 5,188 ratings — published 1973 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Third Life Of Grange Copeland 4.14 avg rating — 4,670 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories 4.01 avg rating — 3,436 ratings — published 1981 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By the Light of My Father's Smile 3.89 avg rating — 3,410 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women 4.08 avg rating — 2,569 ratings — published 1973 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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