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The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.. The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content ...
14 de feb. de 2014 · Alice Walker has been defined as one of the key international writers’ of the 20th century. Walker made history as the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature as well ...
12 de abr. de 2012 · The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker. Acclaimed author, poet, feminist, activist, and, at the age of just thirty-nine, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, Alice Walker is one of our most extraordinary living writers. From her discussions of black identity and feminism to ruminations on suffering and joy, Walker’s ...
18 de sept. de 2003 · Alice Walker is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. Walker’s creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial terror, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture, particularly in the rural South. […]
Alice was the last of eight children of Minnie Lou Grant Walker and Willie Lee Walker; precocious, outgoing and adored by all, she by all accounts enjoyed a happy early childhood. Despite poverty, discrimination in the face of Jim Crow laws and threats from the Ku Klux Klan, the Walkers saw to it that their chidren attended school.
Alice Walker. 1944 –. Read poems by this poet. Poet, essayist, and novelist Alice Walker was born February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of sharecroppers Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. She attended Spelman College and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Walker’s books of poetry include Hard Times ...
17 de jul. de 2019 · Alice Walker’s brief remarks seemed to stall time at the Plaza Arts Center in Eatonton last weekend. Hundreds of literature lovers descended on the rural town for Walker’s 75th birthday celebration, which featured a documentary screening, musical performances and other famous authors reading from her work.
