Alice Walker (1) (1944–)
Autor(a) de The Color Purple
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About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Séries
Obras por Alice Walker
Alice Walker: Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple (Black Expressions Rediscovered) (1970) 127 exemplares
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel (2010) 90 exemplares
The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy (2012) 85 exemplares
Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (2001) 58 exemplares
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way (2013) 36 exemplares
Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy (1999) — Features — 25 exemplares
Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art (1993) 5 exemplares
Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories: Living by the Word, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, In Love & Trouble, and… (2018) 3 exemplares
Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 (English Edition) (1600) 3 exemplares
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (DVD) 2 exemplares
In Love and in Trouble 2 exemplares
All Things Censored 1 exemplar
Kindred Spirits 1 exemplar
“How Poems are Made / A Discredited View” 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
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
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 915 exemplares
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 504 exemplares
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (2003) — algumas edições — 489 exemplares
Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World (1987) — Contribuidor — 466 exemplares
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... and Then Again When I Am Lookin Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (1979) — Editor — 417 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contribuidor — 377 exemplares
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Contribuidor — 270 exemplares
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995) — Contribuidor — 231 exemplares
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Contribuidor — 217 exemplares
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Contribuidor — 180 exemplares
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Contribuidor — 174 exemplares
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contribuidor — 157 exemplares
Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Contribuidor — 148 exemplares
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contribuidor — 141 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Contribuidor — 120 exemplares
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
How to Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (2005) — Prefácio — 104 exemplares
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women (1990) — Contribuidor — 104 exemplares
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Contribuidor — 99 exemplares
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 98 exemplares
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (2001) — Contribuidor — 89 exemplares
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (2012) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 86 exemplares
Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (2003) — Prefácio — 85 exemplares
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (2004) — Contribuidor — 58 exemplares
With Wings: An Anthology of Literature by and about Women with Disabilities (1987) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America (2012) — Afterpoem — 36 exemplares
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening (2004) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, and Journals (1809) — Introdução, algumas edições — 26 exemplares
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993) (1993) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2010) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe (1995) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry (1999) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 18 exemplares
Tanya Holland's California Soul: Recipes from a Culinary Journey West (2022) — Prefácio — 15 exemplares
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Georgia Stories: Major Georgia Short Fiction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1992) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
The Bitter Southerner Magazine, Issue 2 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Walker, Alice Malsenior
- Outros nomes
- WALKER, Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate
WALKER, Alice Malsenior
WALKER, Alice - Data de nascimento
- 1944-02-09
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Eatonton, Georgia, USA
- Locais de residência
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
New York, New York, USA
California, USA - Educação
- Spelman College
Sarah Lawrence College (BA) - Ocupações
- poet
political activist
novelist - Relações
- Chapman, Tracy (former partner)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Lillian Smith Award (National Endowment for the Arts)
Rosenthal Award (National Institute of Arts and Letters)
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Front Page Award (Newswoman's Club of New York)
Townsend Prize (mostrar todos 11)
Lyndhurst Prize
California Hall of Fame (2006)
Humanist of the Year (1997)
Pulitzer Prize (1982)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2016)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 85
- Also by
- 124
- Membros
- 36,074
- Popularidade
- #517
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 573
- ISBN
- 603
- Línguas
- 20
- Marcado como favorito
- 23