Why War Is Never a Good Idea
“Though War is Old / It has not / Become wise,” Walker writes in this eloquent poem. Paintings in neon-bright colors celebrate forest diversity and urban communities across the globe. Then each community,…
Alice Walker: A Life | Evelyn White
In this vibrant narrative White relies heavily on interviews with Alice Walker (b. 1944), her family and friends, the stories are always told in a historical context. Walker’s childhood as a daughter of…
There Is a Flower on the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me
Alice Walker has written a melodious and reflective picture book in which a young girl celebrates the connections between self, nature, and creativity: “There is a song/Deep in/My Body/Singing/Me.” Splendidly surreal illustrations in…
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
“It is the worst of times. It is the best of times. Try as I might I cannot find a more appropriate opening for this volume.” In We Are the Ones We Have…
Langston Hughes, American Poet
One of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Langston Hughes influenced many writers — including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. In this moving and richly detailed portrait, she celebrates the life…
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm
In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker reveals her remarkable philosophy of life. Curiously, this labor of love started with the author’s signature: Faced with the daunting task…
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
“You/ are/ the sister/ The big/ Sister/ As hero,” Alice Walker writes near the beginning of her sixth volume of poems: “The one who sees/ The one who listens/ The one who guides/…
Book: The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart
“These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated,…
Sent By Earth
Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001) Alice Walker uses political commentary, poetry, and hard-won wisdom to look at what…
Book: Anything We Love Can Be Saved
“Walker’s commitment to activism-in its myriad cultural, political and spiritual forms-shines forth convincingly in this wide-ranging collection of personal essays, remarks, letters, speeches and statements, many previously published. Tracing her advocacy to an…
By the Light of My Father’s Smile
A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico–the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother. And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks and Indians called…
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult By Alice Walker New York: Scribner, 1996; In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film…
Warrior Marks
Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar expose the secret of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world’s women. Part memoir, part travelogue, part photographic journey, this nonfiction follow-up…
Possessing the Secret of Joy
From the author the Washington Post calls “a writer of bold artistry,” this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple, whose memory of her sister’s early…
Finding the Green Stone
Johnny lives in a town where everyone owns a shiny green stone. He has one, too, until his mean-spirited behavior makes him lose it. His family and the whole town help him search,…
