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 de Alice Walker
Alice Walker: Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple (Black Expressions Rediscovered) (1970) 127 cópias
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel (2010) 90 cópias
The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy (2012) 85 cópias
Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (2001) 58 cópias
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way (2013) 36 cópias
Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy (1999) — Features — 25 cópias
Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art (1993) 5 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
Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 (English Edition) (1600) 3 cópias
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (DVD) 2 cópias
In Love and in Trouble 2 cópias
All Things Censored 1 exemplar(es)
Kindred Spirits 1 exemplar(es)
“How Poems are Made / A Discredited View” 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)
Strong Horse Tea {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
Freedomways Volume 23 (Number 4) 1 exemplar(es)
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation 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)
"The Flowers" 1 exemplar(es)
Why I'm Joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 915 cópias
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuinte — 504 cópias
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (2003) — algumas edições — 489 cópias
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 cópias
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contribuinte — 377 cópias
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Contribuinte — 270 cópias
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuinte — 183 cópias
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Contribuinte — 180 cópias
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Contribuinte — 174 cópias
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contribuinte — 157 cópias
Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Contribuinte — 148 cópias
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contribuinte — 141 cópias
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuinte — 131 cópias
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Contribuinte — 120 cópias
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contribuinte — 113 cópias
How to Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (2005) — Prefácio — 104 cópias
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women (1990) — Contribuinte — 104 cópias
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Contribuinte — 99 cópias
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Contribuinte — 98 cópias
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Contribuinte — 88 cópias
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (2012) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 86 cópias
Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (2003) — Prefácio — 85 cópias
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contribuinte — 73 cópias
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Contribuinte — 69 cópias
How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (2004) — Contribuinte — 58 cópias
With Wings: An Anthology of Literature by and about Women with Disabilities (1987) — Contribuinte — 43 cópias
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contribuinte — 43 cópias
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Contribuinte — 36 cópias
We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America (2012) — Afterpoem — 36 cópias
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Contribuinte — 33 cópias
Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Contribuinte — 28 cópias
The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, and Journals (1809) — Introdução, algumas edições — 26 cópias
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993) (1993) — Contribuinte — 23 cópias
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2010) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias
Georgia Stories: Major Georgia Short Fiction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1992) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
The Bitter Southerner Magazine, Issue 2 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
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)
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