Alice Walker è una autrice americana molto stimata e pluripremiata, poetessa, romanziere, attivista e scrittrice di saggi e racconti. È considerata una delle principali scrittrici degli Stati Uniti, avendo vinto numerosi premi per le sue opere che affrontano questioni di razzismo, sessismo, ingiustizia, disuguaglianza e povertà.
Nata nel 1944, Walker è cresciuta in campagna in Georgia e ha frequentato il Spelman College e il Sarah Lawrence College. Ha attirato l'attenzione nazionale nel 1982 con la pubblicazione del suo romanzo "The Color Purple", che ha vinto il Premio Pulitzer per la narrativa dell'anno successivo. Il romanzo è stato successivamente adattato in un film di successo diretto da Steven Spielberg e interpretato da Whoopi Goldberg e Oprah Winfrey.
Oltre a "The Color Purple", Walker ha scritto diversi altri libri influenti, tra cui "The Third Life of Grange Copeland", "Meridian", "The Temple of My Familiar" e "Possessing the Secret of Joy". Ha anche pubblicato collezioni di poesie, raccolte di saggi e collezioni di racconti. Il suo lavoro è noto per il linguaggio poetico, la profondità emotiva ed esplorazione di questioni sociali e politiche.
Walker è stata anche un'intellettuale pubblica attiva e un'attivista, lavorando per affrontare questioni di ingiustizia, disuguaglianza e povertà. Ha partecipato a vari movimenti sociali, tra cui il Movimento per i diritti civili, il femminismo e il movimento anti-apartheid. Walker è stata anche una fervente sostenitrice delle cause ambientali e ha lavorato per promuovere l'alfabetizzazione e l'istruzione.
Color Purple Books
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The Color Purple
1982
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The Temple of My Familiar
1989
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
1992
Romanzi singoli
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
1970
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Meridian
1976
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Finding the Green Stone
1991
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By the Light of My Father's Smile
1998
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
2004
Raccolte di racconti
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Revolutionary Petunias
1973
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In Love & Trouble
1973
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Once
1976
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Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning
1979
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
1981
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Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
1985
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Alice Walker Poetry
1985
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know
1991
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Everyday Use
1992
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Giving Birth, Finding Form
1993
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The Complete Stories
1994
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
2000
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
2003
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A Poem Traveled Down My Arm
2003
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Collected Poems
2005
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Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
2010
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The World Will Follow Joy
2013
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Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories
2018
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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
2018
Libri illustrati
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To Hell with Dying
1988
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Sweet People Are Everywhere (With: Torres Quim)
2021
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Sweet People Are Everywhere
2021
Libri di non-fiction
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The Life of Thomas Lodge
1974
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In Search of Our Mother's Garden
1983
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Art Against Apartheid
1986
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Langston Hughes
1987
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Living by the Word
1988
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Warrior Marks
1993
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The Same River Twice
1996
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Alice Walker Banned
1996
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved
1997
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Go Girl!
1997
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Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker in Conversation
1999
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Sent by Earth
2001
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There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me
2006
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for
2006
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Why War Is Never a Good Idea
2007
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Overcoming Speechlessness
2009
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The World Has Changed
2010
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The Chicken Chronicles
2011
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The Cushion in the Road
2013
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My Life as My Self
2015
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
2020
Selected Shorts Books
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For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)
1993
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Even More Laughs (By: Jonathan Lethem, T.C. Boyle, Philip Roth, Stephen Colbert, Miranda July, Christine Baranski, Alec Baldwin, Robert Sean Leonard, Symphony Space, Jerry Zaks, Julia Slavin, Harry Mathews, Thomas Meehan, Marian Seldes, Parker Posey)
1998
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Timeless Classics (By: Shirley Jackson, James Thurber, Raymond Carver, John Shea, Jack London, Edith Wharton, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Connell, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Charles Keating, Symphony Space, Marian Seldes, Isaiah Sheffer, Steven Gilborn)
2006
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Falling in Love (By: E. Nesbit, Padgett Powell, Maile Meloy, Rick Bass, Edna O'Brien, Fionnula Flanagan, Hope Davis, Laurie Colwin, Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Jane Curtin, William Hurt, Symphony Space)
2007
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Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Pets! (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever, Tessa Hadley, John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Symphony Space, Galina Vromen)
2007
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Family Matters (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space)
2008
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A Touch of Magic (By: Ray Bradbury, T.C. Boyle, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Donald Barthelme, Daniel Gerroll, Symphony Space, Andrew Lam, Jerry Zaks)
2009
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The William Hurt Collection (By: Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Aleksandar Hemon, William Hurt, Ron Carlson, Symphony Space)
2009
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Whodunit? (By: Ed McBain, Dashiell Hammett, Shirley Jackson, John Shea, Louise Erdrich, Nadine Gordimer, René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Sean Leonard, C.S. Montanye, Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, Hattie Winston)
2009
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American Classics (With: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, John Sayles, Amy Tan, Symphony Space)
2010
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New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Aleksandar Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Symphony Space)
2011
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Poe! (By: Symphony Space)
2012
Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (With: Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Garrison Keillor, Annie Dillard, Richard Rodríguez, Patricia Hampl, Peter Hawkins, Frederick Buechner, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
1994
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Listening for God, Vol. 2 (By: Anne Tyler, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, Gail Godwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kathleen Norris, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Carol Bly, Andrew Dubus)
1996
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Listening for God, Vol. 2
1996
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Listening for God, Vol. 3 (By: Tillie Olsen, Wendell Berry, John Cheever, Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Tess Gallagher, Reynolds Price, Oscar Hijuelos, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
2000
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Listening for God, Vol. 3
2000
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Listening For God, Vol. 4 (By: Robert Olen Butler, Allegra Goodman, James Baldwin, Kent Haruf, Sue Miller, Doris Betts, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Michael Malone, Alice Elliot Dark)
2002
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Listening For God, Vol. 4
2002
Alice Walker Anthologies
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Points of View
1956
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers
1967
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I Am the Darker Brother
1968
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The Black Woman
1970
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Women and Fiction
1975
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Stories of the Modern South
1977
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The Writer on Her Work
1980
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Stories from the Black Experience
1981
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A World of Fiction
1983
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Home Girls
1983
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Through Other Eyes
1988
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New Woman, New Fiction
1990
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Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality
1991
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Cries of the Spirit
1991
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Growing Up in the South
1991
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The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces
1992
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Quartet Of Stories
1993
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Hear My Voice
1993
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First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
1994
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
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Downhome
1995
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Go the Way Your Blood Beats
1996
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Listening for God, Vol. 2
1996
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Sunrise to Sunset
1997
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Wild Women
1997
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
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Listening for God, Vol. 3
2000
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Georgia Voices
2000
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40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
2000
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Writers on Writing
2001
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Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature
2002
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Listening For God, Vol. 4
2002
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Dog is My Co-Pilot
2003
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The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
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Sisters
2009
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Hope Beneath Our Feet
2010
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Circling Faith
2012
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This is Not a Border
2017
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Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell
2018
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Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
2021
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On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
2021
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Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology