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Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry.  She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award. Her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages, and her books have sold more than fifteen million copies. 

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Series

The Color Purple


A Literary Fiction series (1982 - 1992)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Epistolary survival and self-discovery
  • Black women finding strength in the Deep South
  • Music-fueled transformation through unlikely friendship

Standalone Fiction

The Third Life of Grange Copeland

In Love & Trouble

In Love & Trouble

Short story collection

Meridian

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down

Short story collection

Everyday Use

Everyday Use

Short story collection

By the Light of My Father's Smile

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart

Short story collection

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart

Standalone Non-fiction

The Life of Thomas Lodge

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

Living by the Word

Warrior Marks

Banned

Banned

Novella

The Same River Twice

Anything We Love Can Be Saved

Sent by Earth

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

Alice Walker in Conversation with Gloria Steinem at the 92nd Street Y

Overcoming Speechlessness

The Chicken Chronicles

The Cushion in the Road

Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker in Conversation

My Life as My Self

Alice Walker Quotes

The World Has Changed

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

Works of Poetry

Revolutionary Petunias

Once

Once


Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You In The Morning

Her Blue Body Everything We Know.

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

Alice Walker

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

The World Will Follow Joy

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

Children & Middle Grade Books

To Hell With Dying

Finding the Green Stone

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me

Why War Is Never a Good Idea

Sweet People Are Everywhere

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