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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) — biografía de El color púrpura… (más)

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The Color Purple Collection

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Obras de Alice Walker

El color púrpura 18,992 copias, 333 reseñas

The Temple of My Familiar 2,375 copias, 21 reseñas

En posesión del secreto de la alegria 2,161 copias, 34 reseñas

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 1,349 copias, 9 reseñas

Meridian 1,275 copias, 12 reseñas

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down 835 copias, 8 reseñas

By the Light of My Father's Smile 737 copias, 9 reseñas

The Third Life of Grange Copeland 718 copias, 6 reseñas

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women 680 copias, 9 reseñas

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart 531 copias, 9 reseñas

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart 442 copias, 7 reseñas

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult 430 copias, 1 reseña

Anything We Love Can Be Saved 394 copias

Living by the Word 351 copias

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete 303 copias, 1 reseña

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women 284 copias, 1 reseña

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful 259 copias, 6 reseñas

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness 246 copias, 3 reseñas

Revolutionary Petunias 201 copias, 1 reseña

Why War Is Never a Good Idea 190 copias, 27 reseñas

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems 164 copias, 2 reseñas

Once: Poems 150 copias, 2 reseñas

Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning 137 copias, 2 reseñas

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me 134 copias, 9 reseñas

To Hell with Dying 133 copias, 4 reseñas

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir 126 copias, 5 reseñas

Langston Hughes: American Poet 115 copias, 15 reseñas

Alice Walker: Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple… 111 copias

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems 108 copias, 3 reseñas

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings 99 copias, 2 reseñas

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart 96 copias, 4 reseñas

Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern… 87 copias, 8 reseñas

Finding the Green Stone 87 copias, 3 reseñas

The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar,… 79 copias

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker 78 copias

Everyday Use 74 copias

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers 59 copias, 5 reseñas

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

Alice Walker Banned 53 copias

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker 50 copias

The Complete Stories 50 copias, 1 reseña

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World… 35 copias

Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering… (Features) 25 copias, 2 reseñas

The Color Purple / The Temple of My Familiar 25 copias

Collected Poems 17 copias

Sweet People Are Everywhere (Children Around the World Books, Diversity… 17 copias, 1 reseña

Alice Walker Poetry 11 copias

Alice Walker Fiction (3 Volume Boxed Set) 11 copias

Selected from the Temple of My Familiar 10 copias

Gardening the Soul 7 copias, 1 reseña

The Color Purple / The Complete Stories 6 copias

Moeders en dochters 5 copias

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

My Life As My Self 4 copias

The Sweet Abyss 4 copias, 1 reseña

Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom 4 copias

Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories: Living by the Word, You Can't… 3 copias

Följeslagaren 3 copias

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

Turkoois en koraal ; Leven onder woorden 3 copias

Omnibus: You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, The Third Life of Grange… 2 copias

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

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (DVD) 2 copias

In Love and in Trouble 2 copias

All Things Censored 1 copia

Kindred Spirits 1 copia

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

“How Poems are Made / A Discredited View” 1 copia

Alice Walker Interview With Kay Bonetti 1 copia

Zugvögel 1 copia

Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self 1 copia

Looking for Zora 1 copia

Really, Doesn't Crime Pay? 1 copia

Strong Horse Tea {short story} 1 copia

Freedomways Volume 23 (Number 4) 1 copia

Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation 1 copia

Walker, Alice Archive 1 copia

Ninguém segura esta mulher 1 copia

Am I Blue 1 copia

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

Alice Walker Reading Nineteen Fifty Five 1 copia

From Alice Walker 1 copia

Coming Apart {article} 1 copia

"The Flowers" 1 copia

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

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