In her preface to this collection Alice Walker expresses surprise that she has been writing poetry for more than a quarter of a century--since the summer of 1965 when she traveled to East Africa and began writing the poems that would form her first volume...
Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to...
Alice Walker explores the struggles sheâs had with art, motherhood, illness, and relationships, as well as reveals details from the controversy in the making of the movie based on her book, The Color Purple .
This new collection of poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet Alice Walker is characterized by a variety of themes spoken in humor, anger, and love. In spare, eloquent language Walker sings, celebrates and agonizes over the ordinary vicissitude...
Alice Walker tells the stories of black women who vary greatly in background but who are bound together by their vulnerability to life: Roselily, on her wedding day, surrounded by her four children, pays that a loveless marriage will bring her respectibil...