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Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other bestselling novels include By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, three collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eaton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California. Like so many characters in her fiction, Alice Walker was born into a family of sharecroppers in Eaton, Georgia. She began Spelman College on a scholarship and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. While still in college, Walker became active in the civil rights movement and continued her involvement after she graduated, serving as a voter registration worker in Georgia. She also worked in a Head Start program in Mississippi and was on the staff of the New York City welfare department. She has lectured and taught at several colleges and universities and currently operates a publishing house, Wild Trees Press, of which she is a co-founder. Walker began her literary career as a poet, publishing Once: Poems in 1968. The collection reflects her experiences in the civil rights movement and her travels in Africa. Her second collection of poetry, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973), is a celebration of the struggle against oppression and racism. In between these two collections, she published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), the story of Ruth Copeland, a young black girl, and her grandfather, Grange, who brutalizes his own family out of the frustrations of racial prejudice and his own sense of inadequacy. Walker's first collection of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973), established her special concern for the struggles, hardships, loyalties, and triumphs of black women, a powerful force in the rest of her fiction. Meridian (1976), her second novel, is the story of Meridian Hill, a civil rights worker. In her second collection of short stories, You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down (1981), Walker again portrays black women struggling against sexual, racial, and economic oppression. Walker's third novel, The Color Purple (1982), brought her the national recognition denied her earlier works. Through this story of the sharecropper Celie and the abuses she endures, Walker draws together the themes that have run through her earlier work into a concentrated and powerful attack on racism and sexism, and produces a triumphant celebration of the spirit and endurance of black women. The book received the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a successful film. Walker describes her most recent novel, The Temple of My Familiar (1989) as "a romance of the last 500,000 years." The book is a blend of myth and history revolving around three marriages. As the married couples tell their stories, they explore both their origins and the inner life of modern African Americans. (Bowker Author Biography) — beskrivning från Purpurfärgen… (mer)

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The Color Purple Collection

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Verk av Alice Walker

Purpurfärgen 19,011 exemplar, 333 recensioner

The Temple of My Familiar 2,375 exemplar, 21 recensioner

Possessing the Secret of Joy 2,161 exemplar, 34 recensioner

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 1,349 exemplar, 9 recensioner

Meridian 1,274 exemplar, 12 recensioner

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down 835 exemplar, 8 recensioner

By the Light of My Father's Smile 737 exemplar, 9 recensioner

Det svarta arvet 718 exemplar, 6 recensioner

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women 680 exemplar, 9 recensioner

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart 531 exemplar, 9 recensioner

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart 442 exemplar, 7 recensioner

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult 430 exemplar, 1 recension

Anything We Love Can Be Saved 395 exemplar

Living by the Word 352 exemplar

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete 303 exemplar, 1 recension

Omskärelsen 284 exemplar, 1 recension

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful 259 exemplar, 6 recensioner

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness 246 exemplar, 3 recensioner

Revolutionary Petunias 201 exemplar, 1 recension

Why War Is Never a Good Idea 190 exemplar, 27 recensioner

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems 164 exemplar, 2 recensioner

Once: Poems 150 exemplar, 2 recensioner

Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning 137 exemplar, 2 recensioner

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me 134 exemplar, 9 recensioner

To Hell with Dying 133 exemplar, 4 recensioner

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir 126 exemplar, 5 recensioner

Langston Hughes: American Poet 115 exemplar, 15 recensioner

Alice Walker: Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple… 111 exemplar

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems 108 exemplar, 3 recensioner

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings 99 exemplar, 2 recensioner

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart 96 exemplar, 4 recensioner

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Finding the Green Stone 87 exemplar, 3 recensioner

The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar,… 79 exemplar

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker 78 exemplar

Everyday Use 74 exemplar

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers 59 exemplar, 5 recensioner

Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of… 57 exemplar

Alice Walker Banned 53 exemplar

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker 50 exemplar

The Complete Stories 50 exemplar, 1 recension

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World… 35 exemplar

Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering… (Features) 25 exemplar, 2 recensioner

The Color Purple / The Temple of My Familiar 25 exemplar

Collected Poems 17 exemplar

Sweet People Are Everywhere (Children Around the World Books, Diversity… 17 exemplar, 1 recension

Alice Walker Poetry 11 exemplar

Alice Walker Fiction (3 Volume Boxed Set) 11 exemplar

Selected from the Temple of My Familiar 10 exemplar

Gardening the Soul 7 exemplar, 1 recension

The Color Purple / The Complete Stories 6 exemplar

Moeders en dochters 5 exemplar

Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their… 5 exemplar

My Life As My Self 4 exemplar

The Sweet Abyss 4 exemplar, 1 recension

Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom 4 exemplar

Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories: Living by the Word, You Can't… 3 exemplar

Följeslagaren 3 exemplar

Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling… 3 exemplar

Turkoois en koraal ; Leven onder woorden 3 exemplar

Omnibus: You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, The Third Life of Grange… 2 exemplar

Ihre braune Umarmung. Aus den Gesammelten Gedichten 1965 - 1990. Band 2. 2 exemplar

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (DVD) 2 exemplar

In Love and in Trouble 2 exemplar

All Things Censored 1 exemplar

Kindred Spirits 1 exemplar

Die Erfahrung, des Südens, Good Morning Revolution, 1 exemplar

“How Poems are Made / A Discredited View” 1 exemplar

Alice Walker Interview With Kay Bonetti 1 exemplar

Zugvögel 1 exemplar

Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self 1 exemplar

Looking for Zora 1 exemplar

Really, Doesn't Crime Pay? 1 exemplar

Strong Horse Tea {short story} 1 exemplar

Freedomways Volume 23 (Number 4) 1 exemplar

Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation 1 exemplar

Walker, Alice Archive 1 exemplar

Ninguém segura esta mulher 1 exemplar

Am I Blue 1 exemplar

Human Rights in the World Today : Women Under Attack 1 exemplar

Alice Walker Reading Nineteen Fifty Five 1 exemplar

From Alice Walker 1 exemplar

Coming Apart {article} 1 exemplar

"The Flowers" 1 exemplar

Why I'm Joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza 1 exemplar

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