Alice Walker
| Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker |
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| Bijnaam | |
| 9 februari 1944 | |
| Land | Verenigde Staten |
| Ouders | |
| Ex-partner(s) | Mel Leventhal |
| Partner | |
| Echtgenoot | {{{echtgenoot}}} |
| Kinderen | met Mel Leventhal Rebecca Walker (1969) |
| Jaren actief | 1970-heden |
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| [ Officiële website] | |
Alice Malsenior Walker (9 februari, 1944) is een Afro-Amerikaanse auteur en feminist. Ze won de Pulitzer-prijs voor fictie voor het boek The Color Purple.
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[bewerk] Vroege levensloop
Walker is geboren in Eatonton, Georgia, Verenigde Staten. Haar familie heeft afkomst uit Cherokee, Schotland en Ierland.
[bewerk] Geselecteerd werk
[bewerk] Romans
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
- Everyday Use (1973)
- The Flowers (1973)
- In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
- Meridian (1976)
- The Color Purple (1982)
- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
- To Hell With Dying (1988)
- The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
- Finding the Green Stone (1991)
- Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
- The Complete Stories (1994)
- By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
- The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart (2000)
- Now is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004)
- Beauty: When The Other Dancer is The Self
[bewerk] Gedichten
- Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973)
- Once (1976)
- Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
- Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
- A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
- Collected Poems (2005)
[bewerk] Non-fictie
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
- Warrior Marks (1993)
- The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
- Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
- (en) Brief aan president Bill Clinton
- Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel And Adventure (1997)
- Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
- Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center And Pentagon (2001)
- Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self
- Women
- We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (November 2006)
