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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) — biographie de 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 18,374 exemplaire(s), 324 critiques

The Temple of My Familiar 2,338 exemplaire(s), 21 critiques

Le secret de la joie 2,117 exemplaire(s), 34 critiques

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose 1,314 exemplaire(s), 8 critiques

Meridian 1,240 exemplaire(s), 12 critiques

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down 814 exemplaire(s), 8 critiques

By the Light of My Father's Smile 727 exemplaire(s), 9 critiques

The Third Life of Grange Copeland 706 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women 663 exemplaire(s), 9 critiques

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart 522 exemplaire(s), 9 critiques

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart 431 exemplaire(s), 7 critiques

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult 422 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Anything We Love Can Be Saved 389 exemplaire(s)

Living by the Word 349 exemplaire(s)

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete 298 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women 279 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful 254 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness 235 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Revolutionary Petunias 198 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Why War Is Never a Good Idea 182 exemplaire(s), 27 critiques

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems 159 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Once: Poems 145 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning 136 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

To Hell with Dying 129 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir 125 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me 124 exemplaire(s), 9 critiques

Langston Hughes: American Poet 110 exemplaire(s), 15 critiques

Alice Walker: Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple… 106 exemplaire(s)

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems 104 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings 97 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart 89 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques

Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern… 87 exemplaire(s), 8 critiques

Finding the Green Stone 87 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar,… 77 exemplaire(s)

Everyday Use 71 exemplaire(s)

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker 59 exemplaire(s)

Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of… 57 exemplaire(s)

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers 55 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques

Alice Walker Banned 52 exemplaire(s)

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker 51 exemplaire(s)

The Complete Stories 49 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

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

The Color Purple / The Temple of My Familiar 24 exemplaire(s)

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

Collected Poems 17 exemplaire(s)

Alice Walker Poetry 11 exemplaire(s)

Selected from the Temple of My Familiar 11 exemplaire(s)

Alice Walker Fiction (3 Volume Boxed Set) 11 exemplaire(s)

Gardening the Soul 7 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

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)

The Sweet Abyss 4 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

My Life As My Self 4 exemplaire(s)

Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom 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)

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

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

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

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

Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self 1 exemplaire

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) 1,365 exemplaire(s), 61 critiques

Mules and Men (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 1,012 exemplaire(s), 11 critiques

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 875 exemplaire(s), 7 critiques

The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributeur) 727 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American… (Contributeur) 474 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques

Cane [Norton Critical Edition] (Contributeur) 459 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques

Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World (Contributeur) 450 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

The Complete Stories (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 437 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (Contributeur) 435 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques

Jonah's Gourd Vine (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 400 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques

Points of View: Revised Edition (Contributeur) 394 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Contributeur) 390 exemplaire(s)

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... and Then Again When I Am Lookin Mean… (Directeur de publication) 386 exemplaire(s)

Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (Contributeur) 382 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories… (Contributeur) 367 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (Contributeur) 352 exemplaire(s), 7 critiques

Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (Contributeur) 349 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality (Contributeur) 338 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

But Some of Us Are Brave (Contributeur) 336 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

The Portable Sixties Reader (Contributeur) 308 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

The Color Purple (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Novel) 271 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Contributeur) 261 exemplaire(s)

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (Contributeur) 256 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

The Black Woman: An Anthology (Contributeur) 215 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (Contributeur) 213 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (Contributeur) 199 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) 176 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Eight Modern Essayists (quelques éditions) 168 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (Contributeur) 166 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Erotique Noire/Black Erotica (Contributeur) 153 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by… (Contributeur) 145 exemplaire(s)

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (Contributeur) 140 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (Contributeur) 139 exemplaire(s)

Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (Contributeur) 133 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (Contributeur) 126 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Contributeur) 121 exemplaire(s)

Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (Contributeur) 117 exemplaire(s)

The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (Contributeur) 116 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American… (Contributeur) 114 exemplaire(s)

Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (Contributeur) 114 exemplaire(s)

Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers (Contributeur) 114 exemplaire(s)

The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (Contributeur) 113 exemplaire(s)

The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories (Contributeur) 110 exemplaire(s)

Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (Contributeur) 108 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to… (Contributeur) 108 exemplaire(s)

Poems from the Women's Movement (Contributeur) 104 exemplaire(s)

How to Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and… (Avant-propos) 102 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Des mots pour agir : Contre les violences faites aux femmes : souvenirs,… (Contributeur) 101 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women (Contributeur) 99 exemplaire(s)

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (Contributeur) 98 exemplaire(s)

The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (Contributeur) 94 exemplaire(s)

Black Women Writers at Work (Contributeur) 93 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Soul: An Archaeology--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles (Contributeur) 93 exemplaire(s)

Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (Contributeur) 91 exemplaire(s)

Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (Contributeur) 89 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (Contributeur) 87 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Contributeur) 87 exemplaire(s)

American Short Stories (Contributeur, quelques éditions) 87 exemplaire(s)

Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race (Contributeur) 87 exemplaire(s)

Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by… (Contributeur) 86 exemplaire(s)

Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing (Contributeur) 82 exemplaire(s)

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

Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters (Contributeur) 79 exemplaire(s)

Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women (Contributeur) 75 exemplaire(s)

Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation (Contributeur) 70 exemplaire(s)

Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (Contributeur) 70 exemplaire(s)

The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (Avant-propos, quelques éditions) 70 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques

Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the… (Contributeur) 65 exemplaire(s)

Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading… (Contributeur) 65 exemplaire(s)

It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (Contributeur) 62 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (Contributeur) 62 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

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

Black-Eyed Susans; Classic Stories By and About Black Women (Contributeur) 56 exemplaire(s)

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

Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers (Contributeur) 56 exemplaire(s)

The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (Contributeur) 49 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

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

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

Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (Contributeur) 42 exemplaire(s)

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

On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (Contributeur) 40 exemplaire(s)

Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American… (Contributeur) 37 exemplaire(s)

Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America (Contributeur) 37 exemplaire(s)

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

We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century… (Afterpoem) 35 exemplaire(s)

The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (Contributeur) 32 exemplaire(s)

The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (Contributeur) 32 exemplaire(s)

Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening (Contributeur) 30 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (Contributeur) 28 exemplaire(s)

Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (Contributeur) 28 exemplaire(s)

Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth… (Contributeur) 28 exemplaire(s)

Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (Contributeur) 28 exemplaire(s)

Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought (Contributeur) 26 exemplaire(s)

The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, and Journals (Introduction, quelques éditions) 25 exemplaire(s)

Wild Women (Contributeur) 23 exemplaire(s), 1 critique

The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American… (Contributeur) 21 exemplaire(s)

Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the… (Contributeur) 21 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques

Go Girl! The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (Contributeur) 19 exemplaire(s)

Almost Touching the Skies: Women's Coming of Age Stories (Contributeur) 19 exemplaire(s)

Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women (Contributeur) 19 exemplaire(s)

Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe (Contributeur) 18 exemplaire(s)

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

The Other Woman: Stories of Two Women and a Man (Contributeur) 17 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques

Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (Contributeur) 12 exemplaire(s)

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)

The Best American Short Stories 1974 (Contributeur) 10 exemplaire(s)

Bittersweet (Contributeur) 10 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)

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

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

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