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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Dedications
Alice Walker
AW
published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, which in draft had been titled What Can the Righteous Do?, and which was dedicated to her mother
and her husband
.
Book Review Index. Gale Research.
BRI
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
173, 195
Walker, Alice. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970.
prelims
Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
Alice's mother, born Minnie Lou (for Tallulah) Grant
, was one of a family of twelve children of an unhappy marriage. From childhood she would stand up to her violent father, and she chose a...
Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
Minnie Lou Walker
, mother of AW
, died at the age of eighty.
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
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Textual Production
Alice Walker
In a preface to Roland L. Freeman
's A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories, 1996, AW
wrote of her mother
's quilting: I just feel really good 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.