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Alice Walker

An American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist.

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American author and activist

Born 1944

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  • Cover of: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems

    First published in 2011 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Possessing the Secret of Joy

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  • Cover of: World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers

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  • Cover of: Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering As the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

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  • Cover of: Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, the Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy

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  • Cover of: Mommy Says I Have Butterflies

    First published in 2021 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems

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  • Cover of: In Love and Trouble: Stories

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  • Cover of: The Third Life of Grange Copeland / Meridian / The Color Purple
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    First published in 1990 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Reader's Companion: Bronze Level
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    First published in 2004 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Alice Walker banned
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    First published in 1996 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Finding the green stone
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    First published in 1991 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
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    Cover of edition isbn_9780195087062 First published in 1995 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Pearson Literature: California: Reading and Language
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    First published in 2010 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The world will follow joy: turning madness into flowers (new poems)
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    Cover of edition worldwillfollowj0000walk_f6k0 First published in 2013 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Shorter Seventh Edition
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  • Cover of: Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction
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    Cover of edition storyitswriterin0000unse_n2k7 First published in 2015 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction
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    First published in 1995 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Perrine's Story and Structure
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    Cover of edition perrinesstorystr0012perr First published in 2009 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Fictions
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    First published in 1988 — 2 editions
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American author and activist

Born 1944

Subjects

Fiction, Children's fiction, American literature, short story, Juvenile fiction, Satanism, Mentally ill women, allegory, change, death, gentleman's agreements, nonlinear narrative, recluses, Devil, Puritans, catechism, tradition, Boys, short stories, African Americans, Classic Literature, Drama, Horror stories, Young men, Crime

Places

Massachusetts, Jefferson, Mississippi, United States, Yoknapatawpha County, New England, Salem Village, Araby, Mallard residence, North Richmond Street, Araby bazaar, New York, Wall Street, Ireland, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Galway, England, India, Southern States, Calcutta, Justice of the Peace Court, Surrey, Amazon rainforest, Caribbean

People

Devil, Colonel Sartoris, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Faith Brown, Goodman Brown, Goody Cloyse, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Mangan's sister, Richards, Bartleby, Cicero, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Nippers, Turkey, Fortunato, Lady Fortunato, Luchresi, Montresor, John H. Watson

Time

Antebellum era, 1600s, 19th century, Carnival, 20th century, 1861-65, 1890, 1861-1865, 1692, 1930s, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 17th century, 20e siècle, 20th Century, December, Siglo XX

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Alternative names

  • Walker, Alice
  • Alice walker
  • Alice WALKER
  • ALICE WALKER
  • Alice. Walker
  • Walker, Alice, 1944-

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