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Alice Walker (1) (1944–)

Autor/a de The Color Purple

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85+ obres 36,075 Membres 573 Ressenyes 23 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other bestselling novels include By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, three mostra'n més collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eaton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California. Like so many characters in her fiction, Alice Walker was born into a family of sharecroppers in Eaton, Georgia. She began Spelman College on a scholarship and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. While still in college, Walker became active in the civil rights movement and continued her involvement after she graduated, serving as a voter registration worker in Georgia. She also worked in a Head Start program in Mississippi and was on the staff of the New York City welfare department. She has lectured and taught at several colleges and universities and currently operates a publishing house, Wild Trees Press, of which she is a co-founder. Walker began her literary career as a poet, publishing Once: Poems in 1968. The collection reflects her experiences in the civil rights movement and her travels in Africa. Her second collection of poetry, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973), is a celebration of the struggle against oppression and racism. In between these two collections, she published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), the story of Ruth Copeland, a young black girl, and her grandfather, Grange, who brutalizes his own family out of the frustrations of racial prejudice and his own sense of inadequacy. Walker's first collection of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973), established her special concern for the struggles, hardships, loyalties, and triumphs of black women, a powerful force in the rest of her fiction. Meridian (1976), her second novel, is the story of Meridian Hill, a civil rights worker. In her second collection of short stories, You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down (1981), Walker again portrays black women struggling against sexual, racial, and economic oppression. Walker's third novel, The Color Purple (1982), brought her the national recognition denied her earlier works. Through this story of the sharecropper Celie and the abuses she endures, Walker draws together the themes that have run through her earlier work into a concentrated and powerful attack on racism and sexism, and produces a triumphant celebration of the spirit and endurance of black women. The book received the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a successful film. Walker describes her most recent novel, The Temple of My Familiar (1989) as "a romance of the last 500,000 years." The book is a blend of myth and history revolving around three marriages. As the married couples tell their stories, they explore both their origins and the inner life of modern African Americans. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

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Obres de Alice Walker

The Color Purple (1982) 19,603 exemplars
The Temple of My Familiar (1989) 2,421 exemplars
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) 2,212 exemplars
Meridian (1976) 1,297 exemplars
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (1981) 858 exemplars
By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998) 762 exemplars
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) 740 exemplars
Anything We Love Can Be Saved (1997) 399 exemplars
Living by the Word (1988) 360 exemplars
Revolutionary Petunias (1973) 205 exemplars
Why War Is Never a Good Idea (2007) 196 exemplars
Once: Poems (1976) 156 exemplars
To Hell with Dying (1967) 136 exemplars
The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir (2011) 132 exemplars
Langston Hughes: American Poet (1974) 116 exemplars
Finding the Green Stone (1611) 89 exemplars
Everyday Use (1973) 80 exemplars
Alice Walker Banned (1996) 54 exemplars
The Complete Stories (1994) 53 exemplars
Collected Poems (2005) 17 exemplars
Alice Walker Poetry (1985) 11 exemplars
Gardening the Soul (2000) 7 exemplars
Moeders en dochters (1988) 6 exemplars
My Life As My Self (1995) 4 exemplars
The Sweet Abyss (2004) 4 exemplars
Följeslagaren (1990) 3 exemplars
All Things Censored 1 exemplars
Kindred Spirits 1 exemplars
Zugvögel (2002) 1 exemplars
Looking for Zora 1 exemplars
Am I Blue 1 exemplars
From Alice Walker 1 exemplars
"The Flowers" 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) — Pròleg — 1,628 exemplars
Mules and Men (1935) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions1,083 exemplars
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions915 exemplars
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 774 exemplars
Cane [Norton Critical Edition] (1988) — Col·laborador — 482 exemplars
Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World (1987) — Col·laborador — 466 exemplars
The Complete Stories (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions464 exemplars
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Col·laborador — 444 exemplars
Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions421 exemplars
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Col·laborador — 414 exemplars
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Col·laborador — 411 exemplars
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Col·laborador — 397 exemplars
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Col·laborador — 370 exemplars
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Col·laborador — 365 exemplars
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (1982) — Col·laborador — 356 exemplars
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality (1989) — Col·laborador — 354 exemplars
Literature: The Human Experience (2006) — Col·laborador — 338 exemplars
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Col·laborador — 324 exemplars
The Color Purple [1985 film] (1985) — Novel — 305 exemplars
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983) — Col·laborador — 275 exemplars
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Col·laborador — 270 exemplars
The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970) — Col·laborador — 235 exemplars
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995) — Col·laborador — 231 exemplars
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Col·laborador — 217 exemplars
We Are the Stories We Tell (1990) — Col·laborador — 193 exemplars
Eight Modern Essayists (1980)algunes edicions177 exemplars
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Col·laborador — 169 exemplars
Erotique Noire/Black Erotica (1991) — Col·laborador — 157 exemplars
Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Col·laborador — 148 exemplars
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Col·laborador — 147 exemplars
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Col·laborador — 141 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
Black Women Writers at Work (1983) — Col·laborador — 123 exemplars
Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (1998) — Col·laborador — 122 exemplars
No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973) — Col·laborador — 122 exemplars
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Col·laborador — 121 exemplars
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998) — Col·laborador — 118 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Col·laborador — 117 exemplars
Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (1988) — Col·laborador — 115 exemplars
Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers (1995) — Col·laborador — 115 exemplars
The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories (1996) — Col·laborador — 113 exemplars
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Col·laborador — 113 exemplars
A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer (2007) — Col·laborador — 105 exemplars
Poems from the Women's Movement (2009) — Col·laborador — 105 exemplars
Soul: An Archaeology--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles (1994) — Col·laborador — 101 exemplars
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
American Short Stories (1976) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions95 exemplars
Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (2001) — Col·laborador — 91 exemplars
Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race (1602) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (2001) — Col·laborador — 89 exemplars
Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters (1991) — Col·laborador — 89 exemplars
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (2012) — Pròleg, algunes edicions86 exemplars
Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing (1991) — Col·laborador — 85 exemplars
Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women (1994) — Col·laborador — 79 exemplars
Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation (1984) — Col·laborador — 77 exemplars
Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (1657) — Col·laborador — 76 exemplars
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Col·laborador — 71 exemplars
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers (1990) — Col·laborador — 65 exemplars
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (2021) — Col·laborador — 60 exemplars
Without a Guide: Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures (1994) — Col·laborador — 60 exemplars
Black-Eyed Susans; Classic Stories By and About Black Women (1975) — Col·laborador — 59 exemplars
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (2021) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (1993) — Col·laborador — 50 exemplars
Revenge: Short Stories by Women Writers (1986) — Col·laborador — 49 exemplars
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (1994) — Col·laborador — 46 exemplars
Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers (1980) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought (2021) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America (2003) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening (2004) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, and Journals (1809) — Introducció, algunes edicions26 exemplars
Wild Women (1854) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women (1983) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe (1995) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Almost Touching the Skies: Women's Coming of Age Stories (2000) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Go Girl! The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
The Other Woman: Stories of Two Women and a Man (1993) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry (1999) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions18 exemplars
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1974 (1974) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
America's Original Sin: A Study Guide on White Racism (1994) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Of Leaf and Flower: Stories and Poems for Gardeners (2001) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Bittersweet (1998) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family (2002) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Other Nations: Animals in Modern Literature (2010) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
The Bitter Southerner Magazine, Issue 2 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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I love books where the author is the narrator. Walker's voice made me think I was really listening to Celie and Nettie. So good.
 
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spounds | Hi ha 334 ressenyes més | Feb 6, 2024 |
Alice Walker is an amazing woman and spiritual fountain of wisdom. She makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time.
 
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mslibrarynerd | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Jan 13, 2024 |
I went into this book thinking it was going to be so depressing, but it was surprisingly uplifting as the story went on, and explored cultural barriers in Africa as well as sexuality in America and the life of women of color at this time. There was always such a beautiful solidarity among the women in this book even when they felt threatened by each other, the eventually could come together on the bond of the struggles they had all faced.
 
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sophia.magyk | Hi ha 334 ressenyes més | Jan 3, 2024 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
85
També de
124
Membres
36,075
Popularitat
#517
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
573
ISBN
603
Llengües
20
Preferit
23

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