Alice Walker: 41 books
Once
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Alice Walker’s first published book collects poems written as a student and on her first visit to Africa
For readers seeking the origins of Alice Walker’s potent, distinctive voice, this collection will provide ample insight. Composed while she was still a student at Sarah Lawrence College...
The World Has Changed
Conversations with Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
The National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s fascinating and far-reaching conversations with acclaimed writers and thought leaders.
Spanning more than three decades, this collection of fascinating discussions between Alice Walker and renowned writers, leaders, and teachers,...
by Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of...
The Cushion in the Road
Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple explores our modern world with “compassion, courage, and humor” (Booklist).
Alice Walker once ached for retirement, but in the turmoil of the Democratic primaries and the economic collapse of 2008, she realized...
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Women stand their ground in the midst of crisis in this story collection by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Color Purple.
This collection builds on Alice Walker’s earlier work, the much-praised In Love & Trouble. But unlike her first collection of stories, the women in...
by Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Poems from the author of The Color Purple: “This book has two fine strengths—a music that comes along sometimes [and] Walker’s own tragicomic gifts” (The New York Times Book Review).
The title of this collection comes from a Native American shaman who, reflecting on the terrible...
Living by the Word
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
**Essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple—“**Vintage Alice Walker: passionate, political, personal, and poetic” (Los Angeles Times).
In a follow-up to her collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Walker takes a look at a vast range of issues...
by Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
A collection of early personal and political essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple.
What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers...
Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories
Living by the Word, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, In Love & Trouble, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Compelling collections of short fiction and essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple and “marvelous writer” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Whether she is writing fiction or nonfiction, sharing personal reflections or expressing political views, Alice Walker is without question...
Revolutionary Petunias
And Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
National Book Award Finalist: The love poems of an author caught up in a hopeful and sometimes violent upheaval.
When Alice Walker published her second collection of poems in 1976, she had spent the previous decade deeply immersed in the civil rights movement. In these verses are her most...
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
**A “**stunningly insightful” essay collection from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Publishers Weekly).
From the prolific writer, poet, and activist Alice Walker, comes a compilation of writing and speeches on advocacy, struggle, and hope....
Circling Faith
Southern Women on Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.
Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her...
The Color Purple Collection
The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Three novels by a New York Times–bestselling author—including the Pulitzer Prize****winner The Color Purple—that speak to the African experience in America.
The Color Purple is Alice Walker’s stunning, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of courage in the face of oppression. Celie grows...
by Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
An American woman struggles with the genital mutilation she endured as a child in Africa in a New York Times bestseller “as compelling as The Color Purple” (San Francisco Chronicle).
In Tashi’s tribe, the Olinka, young girls undergo female genital mutilation as an initiation into the...