Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Walker (Eatonton (Georgia), 9 February 1944) is an African American author and feminist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the book The Color Purple. She is the mother of Rebecca Walker.



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[hide] *1 early life  ==Early life[ Edit] == Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, United States. Her family has origin from Cherokee, Scotland and Ireland. After high school she went to Spelman College inAtlanta and got her degree in 1965 from the Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers. During her first year at the school she went to Uganda as an exchange student. ==Relationship mother-daughter[ Edit] == Her relationship with her daughter Rebecca was bad from the start, as the documentary shows Beauty in Truth (2013) to. Alice neglected her daughter namely serious, that everything had to give way to politics and feminism. Rebecca about her mother: ' I was very low on her priority list-after work, political integrity, self development, friendship, spirituality, fame and travel ' (VPRO-guide/Holland Doc. 16-10-2013; previously BBC 8-7-2013). After Rebecca's pregnancy she broke contact with her and Alice disinherited her daughter final. ==Selected work[ Edit] == ===Novels[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Poems<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Non-fiction<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * 2 Relationship mother-daughter
 * 3 Selected work
 * 3.1 Novels
 * 3.2 Poems
 * 3.3 Non-Fiction
 * The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
 * Everyday Use (1973)
 * The Flowers (1973)
 * In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
 * Meridian (1976)
 * The Color Purple (1982)
 * You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
 * To Hell With Dying (1988)
 * The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
 * Finding the Green Stone (1991)
 * Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
 * The Complete Stories (1994)
 * By the Light of My father's Smile (1998)
 * The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart (2000)
 * Now is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004)
 * Beauty: When The Other Dancer is The Self
 * Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973)
 * Once (1976)
 * Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
 * Horses Make a landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
 * Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
 * Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
 * A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
 * Collected Poems (2005)
 * In Search of Our Mothers ' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
 * Warrior Marks (1993)
 * The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
 * Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A writer's Activism (1997)
 * <span len="60" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;cursor:help;color:rgb(85,85,85);" title="Taal: Engels">(<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(85,85,85);">and )  Letter to president Clinton
 * Go Girl!: The Black woman's Book of Travel And Adventure (1997)
 * Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
 * Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center And Pentagon (2001)
 * Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self
 * Women
 * We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (november 2006)