Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, African-American novelist and                                poet most famous for authoring ‘The Color Purple.’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alice Walker is best known for her stories about African American women who achieve heroic stature within the borders of their ordinary day-to-day lives. Alice Walker has been defined as one of the key international writers’ of the 20th century. An internationally celebrated author, poet and activist, Walker’s books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Walker has written many additional best sellers; among them, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), which detailed the devastating effects of female genital mutilation and led to the 1993 documentary Warrior Marks, a collaboration with the British-Indian filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, with Walker as executive producer. Walker’s work has been translated into more than two-dozen languages, and her books have sold more than fifteen million copies.

WEBSITES:

https://www.notablebiographies.com/Tu-We/Walker-Alice.html#ixzz5hyxWVFcD

https://www.biography.com/people/alice-walker-9521939

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alice-walker

VIDEOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NDnbYbyOQ4

BOOKS and more………..

The third life of Grange Copeland [paperback]

Taking the arrow out of the heart / Alice Walker

The cushion in the road : meditation and wandering as the whole world awakens to being in harm’s way 

The color purple [videorecording] 

Now is the time to open your heart [electronic resource] : a novel / Alice Walker