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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 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) — biografia da Il colore viola… (altro)

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Opere di Alice Walker

Il colore viola 18,369 copie, 324 recensioni

The Temple of My Familiar 2,337 copie, 21 recensioni

Possessing the Secret of Joy 2,116 copie, 34 recensioni

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Why War Is Never a Good Idea 182 copie, 27 recensioni

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Once: Poems 145 copie, 2 recensioni

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To Hell with Dying 129 copie, 4 recensioni

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir 125 copie, 5 recensioni

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me 124 copie, 9 recensioni

Langston Hughes: American Poet 110 copie, 15 recensioni

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Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems 104 copie, 3 recensioni

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings 97 copie, 2 recensioni

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart 89 copie, 4 recensioni

Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern… 87 copie, 8 recensioni

Finding the Green Stone 87 copie, 3 recensioni

The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar,… 77 copie

Everyday Use 71 copie

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker 59 copie

Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of… 57 copie

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers 55 copie, 5 recensioni

Alice Walker Banned 52 copie

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker 51 copie

The Complete Stories 49 copie, 2 recensioni

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Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering… (Features) 24 copie, 2 recensioni

Collected Poems 17 copie

Selected from the Temple of My Familiar 11 copie

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Gardening the Soul 7 copie, 1 recensione

Moeders en dochters 5 copie

The Color Purple / The Complete Stories 5 copie

Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their… 5 copie

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My Life As My Self 4 copie

Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom 4 copie

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Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling… 3 copie

Turkoois en koraal ; Leven onder woorden 3 copie

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Ihre braune Umarmung. Aus den Gesammelten Gedichten 1965 - 1990. Band 2. 2 copie

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Ninguém segura esta mulher 1 copia

Walker, Alice Archive 1 copia

Human Rights in the World Today : Women Under Attack 1 copia

Strong Horse Tea {short story} 1 copia

Why I'm Joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza 1 copia

Die Erfahrung, des Südens, Good Morning Revolution, 1 copia

Really, Doesn't Crime Pay? 1 copia

From Alice Walker 1 copia

Coming Apart {article} 1 copia

Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation 1 copia

All Things Censored 1 copia

"The Flowers" 1 copia

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