Alice Walker

Basics:

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

In the Library: Articles

Walker, Alice. "The story of why I am here: or, a woman connects oppressions," Monthly Review 46,2 (6/94):38-43.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Walker, Alice. Langston Hughes, American Poet (NY, 1974).

__________ (ed.) I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (Old Westbury NY, 1979).

__________. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (San Diego, 1983).

__________. Living By the Word: Collected Writings, 1973-1987 (San Diego, 1988).

__________. Possessing the Secret of Joy (NY, 1992).

__________ with Pratibha Parmar. Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation & the Sexual Blinding of Women (NY, 1993).

__________. Everyday Use (New Brunswick NJ, 1994).

__________. The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult. A Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, & the Making of the Film, The Color Purple, Ten Years Later (NY, 1996).

__________. Alice Walker Banned (SF, 1996).

__________. Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (NY, 1997).

__________. The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (NY, 2000).

In the Library: Fiction

Walker, Alice. The Third Life of Grange Copeland (NY, 1970).

__________. In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973).

__________. Meridian (NY: Washington Square, 1976).

__________. You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (NY, 1981).

__________. The Color Purple (NY, 1982).

__________. Possessing the Secret of Joy (NY: Pocket Star, 1992).

__________. The Complete Stories (London, 1994).

__________. By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel (NY, 1998).

In the Library: Poetry

Walker, Alice. Once: Poems (NY, 1968).

__________. Five Poems (Detroit, 1972).

__________. Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (NY, 1973).

__________. Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning: Poems (NY, 1979).

__________. Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems (San Diego, 1984).

__________. To Hell with Dying (San Diego, 1988).

__________. The Temple of My Familiar (San Diego, 1989).

__________. Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete (San Diego, 1991).

CD & Audio:

Film & Video:

Warrior Marks, dir. Pratibha Parmar. Film (produced by Alice Walker) on female genital mutilation..

"The Color Purple", dir. Steven Spielberg. In video stores.