She finished work on this volume (titled from a plant which her mother rescued from a deserted house, kept for years, and gave away in cuttings) during the first year of her Radcliffe Institute
fellowship...
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
AW
married Mel Leventhal
in a civil ceremony in a New York courtroom.
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
154
Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
Then, in Mississippi in the summer of 1966, she met white law student Mel (or Melvyn) Leventhal
, who had a summer job with the Law Students' Civil Rights Research Council
. They worked together...
Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
When AW
moved north in 1971 she took her daughter with her while Mel Leventhal
stayed with his work in Mississippi. Rebecca
was seriously ill during her winter in Massachusetts, and returned in summer 1972...
Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
To enable AW
to move north, Mel Leventhal
took a job in the New York office of the NAACP
, working for their Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Two years after the divorce he married...
Residence
Alice Walker
After their wedding, in summer 1967, AW
and Mel Leventhal
moved back from New York to Mississippi, to a bungalow they bought at 1443 Rockdale Drive, Jackson, in a middle-class black neighbourhood.
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
154, 156-8
Textual Production
Alice Walker
In the first story in her collection The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, AW
wrote tenderly of her marriage to Mel Leventhal
, from whom she had been divorced for nearly a quarter century.
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
281-2
Travel
Alice Walker
After this she settled into the rent-free room overlooking Washington Square in New York that went with Mel Leventhal
's job. From there she moved on to the MacDowell Colony of writers at Peterborough, New...