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Absolute Trust In The Goodness Of The Earth

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: Poetry written after 9-11 inspired by the heart of a woman who believes in the goodness of the Earth.

Copyright Date: 2003

Alice Walker Banned

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: Along with her Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award, Alice Walker has the honor of being one of the most censored writers in American literature. Like Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Madeleine L'Engle and J.D. Salinger, Walker has been the subject of so much controversy that too often the artistry of her work has been lost in the politics of the moment.

Copyright Date: 1986

Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act.

Copyright Date: 1997

The Color Purple

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize winning book by Alice Walker that was made into a movie.

Copyright Date: 1982

Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems--even the happy ones--emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again "in the sunlight."

Copyright Date: 1984

In Love And Trouble: Stories Of Black Women

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: Readers of Alice Walker's The Color Purple will find in these stories further evidence of her power to depict black women -- women who vary greatly in background but are bound together by their vulnerability to life.

Copyright Date: 1973

In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: Womanist prose. The first collection of Walker's nonfiction.

Copyright Date: 1983

Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: the story of a woman's spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love.

Copyright Date: 2004

Once

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: This volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College.

Copyright Date: 1968

Possessing The Secret Of Joy

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: None

Copyright Date: 1992

Revolutionary Petunias And Other Poems

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers--about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope.

Copyright Date: 1973

The Same River Twice: Honoring The Difficult

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: In the early eighties, three extraordinary events interrupted Alice Walker's peaceful, reclusive life--the publication of the bestselling novel The Color Purple, the Pulitzer Prize, and an offer from Spielberg to make her novel into a film.

Copyright Date: 1996

The Third Life Of Grange Copeland

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: Set in rural Georgia during the 1920s, a black family struggles to survive under racial oppression.

Copyright Date: 1970

Warrior Marks

by Walker, Alice and Parmar, Pratibha

Synopsis: How the film "Warrior Marks" was made, which is about female genital mutilation and the sexual blinding of women in Africa.

Copyright Date: 1993

The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: Book of essays by well-known African American novelist and poet.

Copyright Date: 2000

You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down

by Walker, Alice

Synopsis: A natural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated.

Copyright Date: 1981

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