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

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The Color Purple Collection

Obras de Alice Walker

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The Color Purple (1982) 19,728 cópias

The Temple of My Familiar (1989) 2,435 cópias

Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) 2,224 cópias

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) 1,399 cópias

Meridian (1976) 1,300 cópias

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (1981) 864 cópias

By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998) 766 cópias

The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) 747 cópias

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) 712 cópias

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) 540 cópias

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (1996) 461 cópias

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996) 441 cópias

Anything We Love Can Be Saved (1997) 400 cópias

Living by the Word (1988) 361 cópias

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete (1991) 314 cópias

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women (1992) 296 cópias

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1984) 265 cópias

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness (2006) 257 cópias

Revolutionary Petunias (1973) 207 cópias

Why War Is Never a Good Idea (2007) 199 cópias

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems (2003) 168 cópias

Once: Poems (1976) 158 cópias

Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979) 142 cópias

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me (2006) 137 cópias

To Hell with Dying (1967) 136 cópias

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir (2011) 132 cópias

Alice Walker: Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple (Black Expressions Rediscovered) (1970) 129 cópias

Langston Hughes: American Poet (1974) 117 cópias

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (2010) 115 cópias

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings (2003) 102 cópias

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart (2018) 99 cópias

Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel (2010) 91 cópias

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker (2020) 89 cópias

Finding the Green Stone (1611) 89 cópias

The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy (2012) 87 cópias

Everyday Use (1973) 81 cópias

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (2013) 62 cópias

Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (2001) 58 cópias

Alice Walker Banned (1996) 54 cópias

The Complete Stories (1994) 53 cópias

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker (2010) 51 cópias

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way (2013) 39 cópias

The Color Purple / The Temple of My Familiar (2011) 26 cópias

Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy (1999) — Features — 25 cópias

Sweet People Are Everywhere (Children Around the World Books, Diversity Books) (2021) 21 cópias

Collected Poems (2005) 17 cópias

Alice Walker Fiction (3 Volume Boxed Set) (1985) 12 cópias

Alice Walker Poetry (1985) 11 cópias

Selected from the Temple of My Familiar (1992) 10 cópias

Gardening the Soul (2000) 7 cópias

The Color Purple / The Complete Stories (1900) 6 cópias

Moeders en dochters (1988) 6 cópias

Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art (1993) 5 cópias

My Life As My Self (1995) 4 cópias

The Sweet Abyss (2004) 4 cópias

Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom (1986) 4 cópias

Turkoois en koraal ; Leven onder woorden (1996) 3 cópias

Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories: Living by the Word, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, In Love & Trouble, and… (2018) 3 cópias

Följeslagaren (1990) 3 cópias

Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 (English Edition) (1600) 3 cópias

Zugvögel (2002) 2 cópias

Ihre braune Umarmung. Aus den Gesammelten Gedichten 1965 - 1990. Band 2. (1995) 2 cópias

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (DVD) 2 cópias

Omnibus: You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian 2 cópias

Die Erfahrung, des Südens, Good Morning Revolution, (1991) 2 cópias

In Love and in Trouble 2 cópias

Kindred Spirits 1 exemplar(es)

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

Alice Walker Interview With Kay Bonetti (1981) 1 exemplar(es)

Strong Horse Tea {short story} 1 exemplar(es)

Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self 1 exemplar(es)

Looking for Zora 1 exemplar(es)

Really, Doesn't Crime Pay? 1 exemplar(es)

Freedomways Volume 23 (Number 4) 1 exemplar(es)

Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation 1 exemplar(es)

Alice Walker Reading Nineteen Fifty Five (1981) 1 exemplar(es)

Walker, Alice Archive 1 exemplar(es)

Ninguém segura esta mulher 1 exemplar(es)

Am I Blue 1 exemplar(es)

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

From Alice Walker 1 exemplar(es)

Coming Apart {article} 1 exemplar(es)

All Things Censored 1 exemplar(es)

"The Flowers" 1 exemplar(es)

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

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo: 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)
Ocupação: poet
political activist
novelist
Relacionamentos: Chapman, Tracy (former partner)
Premiações: 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 todas 11)
Lyndhurst Prize
California Hall of Fame (2006)
Humanist of the Year (1997)
Pulitzer Prize (1982)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2016)

Membros

Resenhas

The Color Purple de Alice Walker

This is a spectacular book, isn't it? As a white Australian reading this in 2016, I am so far removed from the world of the novel for it to be an anthropological text. Walker's literary skills are superb, leading the reader on despite the often disheartening subject matter. And I can't even explain the thrill that ran up my spine reading sister Nettie's letters about her intellectual awakening in Africa. A classic.

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therebelprince | outras 335 resenhas | Apr 21, 2024 |

The Color Purple: A Novel de Alice Walker

easy to read

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highlandcow | outras 335 resenhas | Mar 13, 2024 |

The Color Purple de Alice Walker

I love books where the author is the narrator. Walker's voice made me think I was really listening to Celie and Nettie. So good.

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spounds | outras 335 resenhas | Feb 6, 2024 |