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About Alice Walker
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for her novel The Color Purple. Her work spans novels, short stories, non-fiction, essays, and poetry. Walker is known for writing across these forms while also speaking from her role as an activist, with a career that has ranged widely across fiction and public life.
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Books by Alice Walker
The Color Purple
1983
By The Light of My Father's Smile
1998
The third life of Grange Copeland
1970
We are the ones we have been waiting for
2006
Meridian
1976