Alice Walker
Standard Name: Walker, Alice
Birth Name: Alice Malsenior Walker
Married Name: Alice Leventhal
Self-constructed Name: Tallulah-Kate
The Color Purple. As well as other novels, she publishes or has published poems, short stories, essays, and journalism, and has produced a biography for children. All are linked by her passionate activism on a range of related social and political topics. Over the course of her career she has drawn fire both from white commentators for alleged bias in favour of her black characters, and from black commentators for allegedly bringing blacks into disrepute by unflattering depictions of them.
is an African-American writer and activist, who began publishing in the late 1960s and is best known for her novel Timeline
Texts
Walker, Alice. “Outlaw, Renegade, Rebel, Pagan: Interview with Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! (2006)”. The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, The New Press, 2010, pp. 268-79.
Walker, Alice. “11th Annual Steve Biko Lecture”. Facebook.
Walker, Alice. “A Conversation with David Swick from Shambhala Sun (2006)”. The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, The New Press, 2010, pp. 301-10.
Walker, Alice. Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Random House, 2003.
Walker, Alice, and Margo Jefferson. “Alice Walker and Margo Jefferson: A Conversation from LIVE from the NYPL (2005)”. The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, The New Press, 2010, pp. 237-67.
Walker, Alice. Alice Walker. The Official Website. http://alicewalkersgarden.com/.
Walker, Alice. “Alice Walker: Why I’m sailing to Gaza”. Sabbah Report.
Walker, Alice. Anything We Love Can Be Saved. Random House, 1997.
Walker, Alice. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Random House, 1998.
Walker, Alice. Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning: Poems. Dial Press, 1979.
Walker, Alice. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing. New World Library, 2010.
Walker, Alice. Her Blue Body Everything We Know. Women’s Press, 1991.
Walker, Alice. Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
Hurston, Zora Neale. I Love Myself When I Am Laughing . . . And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader. Editor Walker, Alice, The Feminist Press, 1979.
Walker, Alice. In Love and Trouble. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973.
Walker, Alice. In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
Walker, Alice. Langston Hughes, American Poet. Crowell, 1974.
Walker, Alice. Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1988.
Walker, Alice. Meridian. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976.
Walker, Alice. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart. Random House, 2004.
Walker, Alice. Once: Poems. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968.
Walker, Alice. Overcoming Speechlessness: a Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel. Seven Stories Press, 2010.
Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1992.
Walker, Alice. Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
Walker, Alice. Sent By Earth. Seven Stories, 2001.