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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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- “I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' respo…”Alice Walker
- “Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?”Alice Walker
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- “In football, you have pads on. You can dive at ankles.”Patrick Chung
- “I was thinking, 'If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached to a handkerc…”Jennifer Coolidge
- “On many occasions I have had to approach salary and bonus in a different way to white men.”Andi Oliver
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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