The Alice Walker Page

( b. 1944 )

Major Works

Poetry
Once ( 1968 ).
Five Poems ( 1972 ).
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems ( 1973 ).
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning ( 1979 ).
On Sight ( 1983 ). Broadside.
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful ( 1984 ).
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete ( 1991 ).

Fiction
The Third Life of Grange Copeland ( 1970 ).
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women ( 1973 ).
Meridian ( 1976 ).
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down ( 1981 ). Short stories.
The Color Purple ( 1982 ).
To Hell With Dying ( 1988 ). Illustrated by Catherine Deeter.
The Temple of My Familiar ( 1989 ).
Possessing the Secret of Joy ( 1992 ).
The Complete Short Stories ( 1994 ). Published in the U. K.

Essays
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose ( 1983 ).
Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987 ( 1988 ).
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women ( 1993 ). Collaboration with Pratibha Parmar.
Banned ( 1996 ). Introduction by Patricia Holt.
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult ( 1996 ). On the making of the film, The Color Purple.
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism ( 1997 ).

Children's Books
Langston Hughes, American Poet ( 1974 ). Illustrated by Don Miller.
The Life of Thomas Lodge ( 1974 ).

Finding the Green Stone ( 1991 ). Illustrated by Catherine Deeter.

About Alice Walker
Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Edited by Henry Louis Gates and K. A. Appiah. Amistad, 1993.
Alice Walker. Links.
Anniina's Alice Walker Page. Biographical sketches, several links to AW pages, interviews, excerpts from AW's writings, critical articles about AW's work, bibliographies, reviews.
Alice Walker from Voices From the Gaps.

Updated 11/20/02
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