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Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other bestselling novels include By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, three collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eaton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California. Like so many characters in her fiction, Alice Walker was born into a family of sharecroppers in Eaton, Georgia. She began Spelman College on a scholarship and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. While still in college, Walker became active in the civil rights movement and continued her involvement after she graduated, serving as a voter registration worker in Georgia. She also worked in a Head Start program in Mississippi and was on the staff of the New York City welfare department. She has lectured and taught at several colleges and universities and currently operates a publishing house, Wild Trees Press, of which she is a co-founder. Walker began her literary career as a poet, publishing Once: Poems in 1968. The collection reflects her experiences in the civil rights movement and her travels in Africa. Her second collection of poetry, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973), is a celebration of the struggle against oppression and racism. In between these two collections, she published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), the story of Ruth Copeland, a young black girl, and her grandfather, Grange, who brutalizes his own family out of the frustrations of racial prejudice and his own sense of inadequacy. Walker's first collection of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973), established her special concern for the struggles, hardships, loyalties, and triumphs of black women, a powerful force in the rest of her fiction. Meridian (1976), her second novel, is the story of Meridian Hill, a civil rights worker. In her second collection of short stories, You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down (1981), Walker again portrays black women struggling against sexual, racial, and economic oppression. Walker's third novel, The Color Purple (1982), brought her the national recognition denied her earlier works. Through this story of the sharecropper Celie and the abuses she endures, Walker draws together the themes that have run through her earlier work into a concentrated and powerful attack on racism and sexism, and produces a triumphant celebration of the spirit and endurance of black women. The book received the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a successful film. Walker describes her most recent novel, The Temple of My Familiar (1989) as "a romance of the last 500,000 years." The book is a blend of myth and history revolving around three marriages. As the married couples tell their stories, they explore both their origins and the inner life of modern African Americans. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from De kleur paars … (meer)

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De kleur paars 17,979 exemplaren, 322 besprekingen

De tempel van mijn gezel 2,306 exemplaren, 22 besprekingen

Het geheim van de vreugde 2,090 exemplaren, 35 besprekingen

De tuinen van onze moeders een zoektocht 1,287 exemplaren, 8 besprekingen

Meridian 1,222 exemplaren, 11 besprekingen

Een vrouw een vrouw, een woord een woord 791 exemplaren, 7 besprekingen

Bij de glimlach van mijn vader 719 exemplaren, 9 besprekingen

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In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women 647 exemplaren, 9 besprekingen

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart 510 exemplaren, 8 besprekingen

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart 426 exemplaren, 7 besprekingen

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Anything We Love Can Be Saved 382 exemplaren

Onder woorden 343 exemplaren

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete 296 exemplaren, 1 bespreking

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women 276 exemplaren, 1 bespreking

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Why War Is Never a Good Idea 179 exemplaren, 27 besprekingen

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Once: Poems 146 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen

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To Hell with Dying 124 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me 123 exemplaren, 9 besprekingen

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir 121 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen

Langston Hughes: American Poet 109 exemplaren, 15 besprekingen

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Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems 100 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings 96 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen

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Finding the Green Stone 86 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart 84 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen

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Everyday Use 69 exemplaren

Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of… 56 exemplaren

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The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker 51 exemplaren

Alice Walker Banned 50 exemplaren

The Complete Stories 49 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker 40 exemplaren

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World… 32 exemplaren

The Color Purple / The Temple of My Familiar 24 exemplaren

Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering… (Features) 24 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen

Collected Poems 16 exemplaren

Alice Walker Poetry 11 exemplaren

Selected from the Temple of My Familiar 10 exemplaren

Alice Walker Fiction (3 Volume Boxed Set) 10 exemplaren

Gardening the Soul 7 exemplaren, 1 bespreking

Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their… 5 exemplaren

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Moeders en dochters 5 exemplaren

Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom 4 exemplaren

My Life As My Self 4 exemplaren

Följeslagaren 3 exemplaren

The Sweet Abyss 3 exemplaren

Turkoois en koraal ; Leven onder woorden 3 exemplaren

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Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories: Living by the Word, You Can't… 3 exemplaren

Ihre braune Umarmung. Aus den Gesammelten Gedichten 1965 - 1990. Band 2. 2 exemplaren

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Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (DVD) 2 exemplaren

Ninguém segura esta mulher 1 exemplaar

Walker, Alice Archive 1 exemplaar

Human Rights in the World Today : Women Under Attack 1 exemplaar

Strong Horse Tea {short story} 1 exemplaar

Why I'm Joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza 1 exemplaar

Die Erfahrung, des Südens, Good Morning Revolution, 1 exemplaar

Really, Doesn't Crime Pay? 1 exemplaar

From Alice Walker 1 exemplaar

Coming Apart {article} 1 exemplaar

Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation 1 exemplaar

All Things Censored 1 exemplaar

"The Flowers" 1 exemplaar

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