Alice Walker

Here is a glorious, offbeat, compassionate, and inspirational memoir in which Alice Walker shares her experiences raising and caring for a flock of chickens. In pieces that are by turns moving, thoughtful, and utterly captivating, Walker addresses her 'girls' directly, sometimes from the intimate proximity of her yard, other times at a great distance, during her travels to Bali and Dharamsala as an activist for peace and justice. On the way, she invites...

Three novels by a New York Times–bestselling author—including the Pulitzer Prizewinner 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 up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family. As a teenager...

The first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize-for The Color Purple-Walker is both a committed artist and engaged activist, as reflected in the four works in this volume. Living by the Word: In this follow-up to In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Walker reflects on issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of The Color Purple, to the history of African American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution...

"Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy. In this dazzling collection, the beloved writer offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Walker imbues her poetry with evocative images, fresh language, anger, forgiveness, and profound wisdom. By attentively chronicling the conditions of human life today, Walker shows, as ever, her deep compassion, profound spirituality, and necessary political...

Primeira mulher afro-americana a receber o prestigioso prêmio Pulitzer de ficção, Alice Walker também foi pioneira ao tratar de diversos temas da cultura negra dos Estados Unidos. Ainda nos anos 1970, abordou pela primeira vez questões raciais como o colorismo, e passou a defender um ponto de vista mulherista, termo reivindicado pelo feminismo negro para expressar as particularidades de suas lutas. Filha de trabalhadores rurais, Alice Walker...

The New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm-from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author "A light in darkness, Alice Walker awakens us to our own power as only she can. . . . Once again, Walker has exceeded our expectations." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution When the United States recently exploded with unprecedented demonstrations challenging racial violence and hatred, Alice Walker's New York Times...

In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the Gaza Strip. Here is her testimony. Bearing witness to the depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories of the individuals who crossed her path...

Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple-reads the English-language editions of the poems in her new bi-lingual collection, a collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Alice Walker shares a timely volume of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of painful self-inquiry,...

Die junge Schwarze Celie wächst Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in Georgia auf. Während ihre Mutter im Sterben liegt, wird sie mit vierzehn zum ersten Mal von ihrem Vater vergewaltigt und in den Folgejahren zweimal schwanger. Er gibt die Kinder weg, sie weiß nicht, ob sie noch leben oder tot sind. Als sie in die Ehe mit einem Mann gezwungen wird, der sie schlägt, wendet sich Celie in verzweifelten Briefen an Gott, da sie keinen anderen Ausweg mehr...

Alice Walker, the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple-"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)-offers the Spanish-language editions of poems in her new bi-lingual collection, a collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Alice Walker shares a timely volume of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while...