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Alice Walker (1)

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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) — biography from La couleur pourpre … (plus d'informations)

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The Color Purple Collection

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Œuvres de Alice Walker

La couleur pourpre 17,800 exemplaire(s), 319 critiques

Alice Walker's The Color Purple (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) 2,324 exemplaire(s), 21 critiques

Le secret de la joie 2,076 exemplaire(s), 33 critiques

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose 1,274 exemplaire(s), 8 critiques

Meridian 1,211 exemplaire(s), 11 critiques

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down 785 exemplaire(s), 7 critiques

By the Light of My Father's Smile 713 exemplaire(s), 9 critiques

The Third Life of Grange Copeland 686 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women 639 exemplaire(s), 9 critiques

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart 507 exemplaire(s), 8 critiques

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult 421 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart 419 exemplaire(s), 7 critiques

Anything We Love Can Be Saved 381 exemplaire(s)

Living by the Word 338 exemplaire(s)

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete 292 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women 276 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful 247 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness 220 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Revolutionary Petunias 195 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Why War Is Never a Good Idea 177 exemplaire(s), 27 critiques

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems 154 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Once: Poems 146 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning 135 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

To Hell with Dying 124 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me 122 exemplaire(s), 9 critiques

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir 119 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques

Langston Hughes: American Poet 107 exemplaire(s), 15 critiques

Alice Walker: Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple… 107 exemplaire(s)

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems 97 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings 94 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Finding the Green Stone 86 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern… 85 exemplaire(s), 8 critiques

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart 81 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar,… 73 exemplaire(s)

Everyday Use 67 exemplaire(s)

Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of… 55 exemplaire(s)

Alice Walker Banned 50 exemplaire(s)

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker 50 exemplaire(s)

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers 50 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques

The Complete Stories 49 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker 34 exemplaire(s)

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World… 32 exemplaire(s)

Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering… (Features) 24 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

The Color Purple / The Temple of My Familiar 23 exemplaire(s)

Collected Poems 16 exemplaire(s)

Alice Walker Poetry 11 exemplaire(s)

Selected from the Temple of My Familiar 10 exemplaire(s)

Alice Walker Fiction (3 Volume Boxed Set) 10 exemplaire(s)

Gardening the Soul 7 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

By Alice Walker (The Color Purple) Paperback 5 exemplaire(s)

The Color Purple / The Complete Stories 5 exemplaire(s)

Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their… 5 exemplaire(s)

Moeders en dochters 5 exemplaire(s)

Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom 4 exemplaire(s)

My Life As My Self 4 exemplaire(s)

Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling… 3 exemplaire(s)

Följeslagaren 3 exemplaire(s)

Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories: Living by the Word, You Can't… 3 exemplaire(s)

The Sweet Abyss 3 exemplaire(s)

Turkoois en koraal ; Leven onder woorden 3 exemplaire(s)

Ihre braune Umarmung. Aus den Gesammelten Gedichten 1965 - 1990. Band 2. 2 exemplaire(s)

Omnibus: You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, The Third Life of Grange… 2 exemplaire(s)

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (DVD) 2 exemplaire(s)

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

Ninguém segura esta mulher 1 exemplaire

Walker, Alice Archive 1 exemplaire

All Things Censored 1 exemplaire

Strong Horse Tea {short story} 1 exemplaire

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

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

From Alice Walker 1 exemplaire

Coming Apart {article} 1 exemplaire

"The Flowers" 1 exemplaire

Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation 1 exemplaire

Really, Doesn't Crime Pay? 1 exemplaire

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Également par Alice Walker

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Avant-propos) 1,252 exemplaire(s), 58 critiques

Mules and Men (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 976 exemplaire(s), 11 critiques

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 863 exemplaire(s), 7 critiques

The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributeur) 707 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American… (Contributeur) 457 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques

Cane [Norton Critical Edition] (Contributeur) 454 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques

Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World (Contributeur) 439 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (Contributeur) 424 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques

Zora Neale Hurston: The Complete Stories (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 420 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Points of View: Revised Edition (Contributeur) 385 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques

Jonah's Gourd Vine (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 384 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... and Then Again When I Am Lookin Mean… (Directeur de publication) 377 exemplaire(s)

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Contributeur) 377 exemplaire(s)

Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (Contributeur) 371 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories… (Contributeur) 362 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Women and Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (Contributeur) 341 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques

Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (Contributeur) 338 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality (Contributeur) 334 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

But Some of Us Are Brave (Contributeur) 323 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

The Portable Sixties Reader (Contributeur) 302 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

The Color Purple (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Novel) 258 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Contributeur) 254 exemplaire(s)

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (Contributeur) 251 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (Contributeur) 206 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

The Black Woman: An Anthology (Contributeur) 204 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (Contributeur) 200 exemplaire(s)

We Are the Stories We Tell (Contributeur) 185 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous… (Contributeur) 172 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Eight Modern Essayists (quelques éditions) 167 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (Contributeur) 159 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Erotique Noire/Black Erotica (Contributeur) 148 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (Contributeur) 136 exemplaire(s)

Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by… (Contributeur) 135 exemplaire(s)

Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (Contributeur) 131 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (Contributeur) 125 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (Contributeur) 122 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Contributeur) 119 exemplaire(s)

The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (Contributeur) 115 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (Contributeur) 113 exemplaire(s)

Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (Contributeur) 113 exemplaire(s)

Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers (Contributeur) 111 exemplaire(s)

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American… (Contributeur) 109 exemplaire(s)

The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (Contributeur) 108 exemplaire(s)

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to… (Contributeur) 107 exemplaire(s)

Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (Contributeur) 106 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories (Contributeur) 106 exemplaire(s)

Poems from the Women's Movement (Contributeur) 100 exemplaire(s)

Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women (Contributeur) 98 exemplaire(s)

Des mots pour agir : Contre les violences faites aux femmes : souvenirs,… (Contributeur) 98 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

How to Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and… (Avant-propos) 95 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Soul: An Archaeology--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles (Contributeur) 90 exemplaire(s)

The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (Contributeur) 89 exemplaire(s)

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (Contributeur) 87 exemplaire(s)

Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race (Contributeur) 86 exemplaire(s)

Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by… (Contributeur) 85 exemplaire(s)

Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (Contributeur) 85 exemplaire(s)

The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (Contributeur) 84 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (Contributeur) 84 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Contributeur) 84 exemplaire(s)

American Short Stories (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 83 exemplaire(s)

Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the… (Avant-propos) 81 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing (Contributeur) 79 exemplaire(s)

Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters (Contributeur) 75 exemplaire(s)

Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women (Contributeur) 70 exemplaire(s)

Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation (Contributeur) 69 exemplaire(s)

Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (Contributeur) 69 exemplaire(s)

The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (Avant-propos, quelques éditions) 65 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the… (Contributeur) 64 exemplaire(s)

Black Women Writers at Work (Contributeur) 62 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (Contributeur) 60 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Without a Guide: Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures (Contributeur) 59 exemplaire(s)

How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter… (Contributeur) 56 exemplaire(s)

Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading… (Contributeur) 56 exemplaire(s)

Black-Eyed Susans; Classic Stories By and About Black Women (Contributeur) 53 exemplaire(s)

Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers (Contributeur) 53 exemplaire(s)

Revenge: Short Stories by Women Writers (Contributeur) 49 exemplaire(s)

The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (Contributeur) 47 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers (Contributeur) 42 exemplaire(s)

With Wings: An Anthology of Literature by and about Women with… (Contributeur) 40 exemplaire(s)

Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (Contributeur) 38 exemplaire(s)

The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (Contributeur) 37 exemplaire(s)

Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America (Contributeur) 36 exemplaire(s)

Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American… (Contributeur) 36 exemplaire(s)

We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century… (Afterpoem) 32 exemplaire(s)

The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (Contributeur) 31 exemplaire(s)

The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (Contributeur) 30 exemplaire(s)

On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (Contributeur) 30 exemplaire(s)

Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening (Contributeur) 29 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (Contributeur) 27 exemplaire(s)

Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth… (Contributeur) 27 exemplaire(s)

Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (Contributeur) 26 exemplaire(s)

The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, and Journals (Introduction, quelques éditions) 24 exemplaire(s)

Wild Women (Contributeur) 22 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the… (Contributeur) 20 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques

The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American… (Contributeur) 19 exemplaire(s)

Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought (Contributeur) 19 exemplaire(s)

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (Contributeur) 19 exemplaire(s)

Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women (Contributeur) 18 exemplaire(s)

Go Girl! The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (Contributeur) 18 exemplaire(s)

Almost Touching the Skies: Women's Coming of Age Stories (Contributeur) 18 exemplaire(s)

Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 17 exemplaire(s)

Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe (Contributeur) 17 exemplaire(s)

The Other Woman: Stories of Two Women and a Man (Contributeur) 16 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

America's Original Sin: A Study Guide on White Racism (Contributeur) 12 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Georgia Stories: Major Georgia Short Fiction of the Nineteenth and… (Contributeur) 11 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (Contributeur) 11 exemplaire(s)

Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (Contributeur) 10 exemplaire(s)

The Best American Short Stories 1974 (Contributeur) 9 exemplaire(s)

Bittersweet (Contributeur) 9 exemplaire(s)

Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing (Contributeur) 8 exemplaire(s)

The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic… (Contributeur) 8 exemplaire(s)

These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family (Contributeur) 8 exemplaire(s)

The Bitter Southerner Magazine, Issue 2 (Contributeur) 1 exemplaire

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