Book: The Temple of My Familiar
OVER FOUR MONTHS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some…
Reading “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Reading “Their Eyes Were Watching God“ After 75 years, Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” still resonates in the hearts and minds of contemporary audiences, but it had particular significance…
THE Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir
©2011 by Alice Walker (words); ©2011 by Tamara Staples (art). I love this chicken because she is so in her body. If you look into her eyes you are right to know she…
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
Acclaimed author, poet, feminist, activist, and, at the age of just thirty-nine, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, Alice Walker is one of our most extraordinary living writers. From her discussions of…
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
“[These] poems grow as naturally on the page as grass and flowers, yet never try to conceal a terrain of early graves, emotional land mines, and levies of sorrow.” – Gloria Steinem,…
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…
