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Category:	Modern Literature
Name:	Alice Walker
Birth Year:	1944
Death Year:	na
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Alice Walker SEARCH NOW: by title by author Alice Walker (February 9, 1944 - ) is an African American author, born in Eatonton, Georgia. Her novel, The Color Purple won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. She was also an editor for Ms. magazine. An article she published in 1975 was largely responsible for the renewal of interest in the work of Zora Neale Hurston. Her works include: Once (Poems) The Third Life of Grange Copeland In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems Meridian Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories The Color Purple In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful To Hell With Dying Living by the Word The Temple of My Familiar Finding the Green Stone Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems Possessing the Secret of Joy Warrior Marks The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism By the Light of My Father's Smile The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Alice Walker.] The Great Books: Alice Walker Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Alice Walker. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Alice Walker. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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