Alice Walker
A writer to know. A book to begin with.
Living American novelist, poet, and activist, born February 9, 1944. Her publisher and official biography document her writing and public work.
Alice Walker writes across novels, stories, poems, essays, and books for children. Born in rural Georgia, she brings Black women’s lives, spiritual searching, and the ties between people and the natural world into a body of work larger than any single book. The Color Purple gives Celie’s letters their own authority; Meridian and The Temple of My Familiar offer different ways into Walker’s concerns with memory, freedom, and connection.
Books to explore
- The Color Purple — find on Amazon ↗
- Meridian — find on Amazon ↗
- The Temple of My Familiar — find on Amazon ↗
- In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose — find on Amazon ↗
- Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems — find on Amazon ↗
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland — find on Amazon ↗
- Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker (edited by Valerie Boyd) — find on Amazon ↗
More books to explore
- Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart — find on Amazon ↗
- The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart — find on Amazon ↗
- By the Light of My Father's Smile — find on Amazon ↗
- The Complete Stories — find on Amazon ↗
- Possessing the Secret of Joy — find on Amazon ↗
- Finding the Green Stone — find on Amazon ↗
- To Hell with Dying — find on Amazon ↗
- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories — find on Amazon ↗
- "Everyday Use" — find on Amazon ↗
- In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women — find on Amazon ↗
- Collected Poems — find on Amazon ↗
- Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems — find on Amazon ↗
- A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings — find on Amazon ↗
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete — find on Amazon ↗
- Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning — find on Amazon ↗
- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful — find on Amazon ↗
- Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems — find on Amazon ↗
- Once — find on Amazon ↗
- We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness — find on Amazon ↗
- Pema Chodron And Alice Walker in Conversation — find on Amazon ↗
- Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center And Pentagon — find on Amazon ↗
- Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism — find on Amazon ↗
- The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult — find on Amazon ↗
- Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women — find on Amazon ↗
- There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me — find on Amazon ↗
- Langston Hughes: American Poet — find on Amazon ↗
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