On her fifteenth birthday AW
dedicated a scrapbook of mementoes, including her own poems and stories, to those who have inspired me most: her mother
, father
, sister Ruth
, an uncle and several teachers.
Byrd, Rudolph P., editor. The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker. The New Press, 2010.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
Willie Lee Walker
, father of AW
, died at sixty-three from the effects of emphysema, diabetes, and pneumonia.
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
Alice's father, Willie Lee Walker
was the eldest child of a disastrous marriage, who had learned early to keep his head down and his emotions hidden. In the depression, in the early thirties, he and...
Textual Production
Alice Walker
AW
published another volume of poems, Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning, titled from the words her mother
had spoken over her father
's casket at his funeral.
Book Review Index. Gale Research.
BRI
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.