Alice Walker

Alice Walker From Outcyclopedia, the free and queer encyclopedia. Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author whose most famous novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. Walker's writings, including poems, stories, essays and novels, focus on the struggles of African-Americans, and particularly African-American women, against societies that are racist, sexist, and often violent. Her writings tend to emphasize the strength of black women and the importance of African-American heritage and culture. Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia. She attended Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated in 1965 from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers (Bronxville postal zone), New York. Her first book of poetry was written while she was still a senior at Sarah Lawrence. She returned to the South to work in the U.S. civil rights movement. Walker was also an editor for Ms. Magazine. An article she published in 1975 was largely responsible for the renewal of interest in the work of Zora Neale Hurston. A political activist, in 1996 Walker wrote to President Bill Clinton to protest the Cuban embargo. She is also active in environmental, feminist, and civil rights causes. Her daughter, Rebecca Walker, is also a prominent feminist. Selected works Once (poems) The Third Life of Grange Copeland In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems Meridian Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories The Color Purple In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful To Hell With Dying Living by the Word The Temple of My Familiar Finding the Green Stone Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems Possessing the Secret of Joy Warrior Marks The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism By the Light of My Father's Smile The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart Letter to President Clinton Entry added 10 February, 2005. This entry uses material from the Wikipedia article, "Alice Walker." All text is available for use under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (see Copyrights for details). DISCLAIMER: This is not an adult site, and does not contain any pornographic images or material. Any references to sex or other adult material or behavior is made from a purely academic standpoint. Images used on this site are credited whenever possible, and any whose copyright status is in dispute will be gladly removed or credited upon request. Not all persons listed on this site are or were openly homosexual, but reasonable conclusions about their sexuality may and has been made from diaries, letters, and other writings and accounts made by them and/or those who knew them. Several others are heterosexual and are included here for the impact, whether positive or negative, they have made on queer culture and history.