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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
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