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41. Alice (Malsenior) Walker Biography
alice Malsenior walker An Annotated Bibliography 19681986 by Louis H. Pratt and Darnell D. Pratt, Westport, Connecticut, Meckler, 1988; alice walker An
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Find all books written by Alice Walker on Amazon.com Nationality: American. Born: Eatonton, Georgia, 1944. Education: Spelman College, Atlanta, 1961-63; Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1963-65, B.A. 1965. Career: Voter registration and Head Start program worker, Mississippi, and with New York City Department of Welfare, mid-1960s; teacher, Jackson State College, 1968-69, and Tougaloo College, 1970-71, both Mississippi; lecturer, Wellesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972-73, and University of Massachusetts, Boston, 1972-73; associate professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, after 1977. Distinguished Writer, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1982; Fannie Hurst Professor, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Fall 1982. Co-founder and publisher, Wild Trees Press, Navarro, California, 1984-88. Awards: Bread Loaf Writers Conference scholarship, 1966; American Scholar prize, for essay, 1967; Merrill fellowship, 1967; MacDowell fellowship, 1967, 1977; Radcliffe Institute fellowship, 1971; Lillian Smith award, for poetry, 1973; American Academy Rosenthal award, 1974; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1977; Guggenheim grant, 1978; American Book award, 1983; Pulitzer prize, 1983; O. Henry award, 1986; Nora Astorga Leadership award, 1989; Fred Cody award for lifetime achievement, Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, 1990; Freedom to Write award, PEN Center USA West, 1990; Shelia award, Tubman African American Museum, 1998. Ph.D.: Russell Sage College, Troy, New York, 1972; D.H.L.: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1983. Lives in San Francisco.

42. Study Guide Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
(3) Finally how does the story invite us to evaluate these opposing sets of values with whom does walker invite us to side, to identify?
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Plan on reading the story at least 3 times in accordance with the promptings in this study guide. In your first reading , get your bearings by carrying out the standard agenda of curiosity: Where do you figure the story is set? (It may not be possible to specify exactly where, but you ought to try to come up with some reasonably specific sense of where and when we are to imagine the action of the story taking place. As for the time, don't forget to take into account when the story was published, and then to ask whether there are any hints as to whether the original audience was being invited to think of it as taking place in what was f or them "now," or in the near or remote past, or some time the future. How do we need to take this setting into account in understanding the assumptions that play a role in the characters' experience, interpretations, decisions? Who is the narrator? A character in the story? (central to the story's main action,or marginal?) A voice that does not belong to any of the characters? (Is this voice able to report on the subjective experience on one but only one of the characters? on that of more than one? able to report only on objectively observable details?)

43. NOW With Bill Moyers. Arts & Culture. Alice Walker | PBS
One of the leading voices among black American women writers, alice walker has published books of influential poetry, novels, short stories, essays,
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44. Speak Out : Biography And Booking Information
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45. Alice Walker Quote - Quotation From Alice Walker - Change/Growth Quote - Friends
alice walker quotation - part of a larger collection of Wisdom Quotes to challenge and inspire.
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Quotations to inspire and challenge Main Alice Walker No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. This quote is found in the following categories: Change/Growth Quotes Friendship Quotes Silence Quotes
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46. Alice Walker | We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For | WGBH Forum Network | F
Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Color Purple and one of the most prominent novelists of her generation, alice walker is also a bestselling non-fiction
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47. WALKER, Alice (Malsenior)
walker, alice (Malsenior). walker s other writings include Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973); the shortstory collection In Love and Trouble .
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48. KQED | Forum: California Reading - The Color Purple
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49. BookPage Review: The Same River Twice
Virginia Woolf said writing improves society and makes the writer a better person, too, says alice walker. For all the compassion in her life and work,
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"Anyone who is really alive in their own time will have to be a political writer. As we reveal different worlds to each other, we move us forward into being more compassionate people. Virginia Woolf said writing improves society and makes the writer a better person, too," says Alice Walker. For all the compassion in her life and work, Walker has never shied away from telling the world some things it might not want to hear. For years she has decried the inhumane practice of female genital mutilation, a rite of passage in many countries. She has sided with Fidel Castro over the fate of Cuba. Her books have been banned and then restored to the shelves in public schools and libraries. She will not be silenced, she will not turn the other cheek. Walker's new memoir The Same River Twice is as brave as anything she's ever written.

50. Ms. Magazine | From The Archives
alice walker When the poet Jean Toomer walked through the South in the early twenties, he discovered a curious thing Black women whose spirituality was so
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I described her own nature and temperament. Told how they needed a larger life for their expression. . . . I pointed out that in lieu of proper channels, her emotions had overflowed into paths that dissipated them. I talked, beautifully I thought, about an art that would be born, an art that would open the way for women the likes of her. I asked her to hope, and build up an inner life against the coming of that day. . . . I sang, with a strange quiver in my voice, a promise song. "Avey," Jean Toomer, Cane The poet speaking to a prostitute who falls asleep while he's talking- When the poet Jean Toomer walked through the South in the early twenties, he discovered a curious thing: Black women whose spirituality was so intense, so deep, so unconscious, that they were themselves unaware of the richness they held. They stumbled blindly through their lives: creatures so abused and mutilated in body, so dimmed and confused by pain, that they considered themselves unworthy even of hope. In the selfless abstractions their bodies became to the men who used them, they became more than "sexual objects," more even than mere women: they became Saints. Instead of being perceived as whole persons, their bodies became shrines: what was thought to be their minds became temples suitable for worship. These crazy "Saints" stared out at the world, wildly, like lunatics-or quietly, like suicides; and the "God" that was in their gaze was as mute as a great stone.

52. CONVERSATION WITH ALICE WALKER BY MARIANNE SCHNALL
alice walker is known for her literary fiction, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning The Color Purple (now a major Broadway play), her many volumes of
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Alice Walker is known for her literary fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple (now a major Broadway play), her many volumes of poetry, and her powerful nonfiction collections. Her other bestselling books include In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens The Temple of My Familiar Possessing the Secret of Joy By the Light of My Father's Smile , and The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart . Her latest book is We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness Alice Walker is on the Advisory Board of Feminist.com

53. Alice Walker - MSN Encarta
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Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Blog It Multimedia 1 item Alice Walker , born in 1944, American author and poet, most of whose writing portrays the lives of poor, oppressed African American women in the early 1900s. Born Alice Malsenior Walker in Eatonton, Georgia, she was educated at Spelman and Sarah Lawrence colleges. She wrote most of her first volume of poetry during a single week in 1964; it was published in 1968 as Once. Walker's experiences during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence, including undergoing an abortion and making a trip to Africa, provided many of the book's themes, such as love, suicide, civil rights, and Africa. She won the American Book Award ( see National Book Awards ) and the Pulitzer Prize for her best-known work, the novel

54. Alice Walker: A Who2 Profile
alice walker wrote The Color Purple, the 1982 novel that won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a Steven Spielberg movie.
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Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple , the 1982 novel that won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a Steven Spielberg movie starring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg . Walker was a civil rights activist as a young woman in the American south, and an editor at Ms. magazine in the 1970s. The Color Purple tells the story of Celie, a poor black Georgia woman who struggles to overcome childhood traumas and achieve a sense of pride and self-worth. Though it was a novel that brought her greatest fame, Walker is recognized more as a poet and essayist. Her volumes of poetry include Once Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1984) and Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems Extra credit : Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta from 1961-63, then transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1965... She was married to Melvyn Leventhal from 1967-77. They had one daughter, Rebecca, in 1969. Walker appears with fellow author Astrid Lindgren in our loop on Critter Defenders.

55. Alice Walker - Authors - Random House
alice walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple, which was preceded by The Third Life of Grange Copeland and
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56. Alice Walker (Main Page)
Born to a sharecropping family in Georgia, alice walker thrived in the rich culture of what she called the agrarian peasantry to become one of our most
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Born to a sharecropping family in Georgia, Alice Walker thrived in the rich culture of what she called the "agrarian peasantry" to become one of our most important and popular writers. Evelyn C. White charts Walker's childhood, marked by an incident at eight that left her blinded in her right eye and disfigured by scar tissue and that prompted her, out of a sense of "ugliness," to probe human suffering through her poems and stories. We learn of her activism in the 1960s freedom movement and her leadership of the debate on black women's art, politics, and sexuality. The Color Purple
Evelyn C. White is a journalist and the author of Chain Chain Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships and The Black Women's Health Book . She lives in Oakland, California. 2004 / hardcover / ISBN 0-393-05891-3 / 6" x 9" / 496 pages / Biography

57. Biography
1964 was the turning point for Ms. alice walker. Realising that she was pregnant she contemplated suicide and slept with her razor under her pillow for
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Alice Walker [pictured], essayist, poet, novelist, activist and medium. Born in Eatonton Georgia, on February the 9 th , 1944, just before the end of World War Two, Alice Malsenior Walker was the eighth of eight children to Minnie Tallulah Grant Walker and Winnie Lee Walker. Walker was a confident girl until 1952, when a freak accident involving a BB gun left her blinded her in one eye. Although her older brother, who shot her during a heated game of Cowboys and Indians, offered to pay for an operation to correct the impairment, Walker would never fully recover the sight of her right eye. From then on, she became secluded and reserved, she dreamed of suicide, but at the same time found solace in writing poetry, short stories and became an observer rather than a participator in everyday life. Despite the damage to her eye, and the life she led as a hermit in the years that followed, Walker graduated high school and left for Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia in 1961. On leaving, her mother gave her three special gifts: a suitcase for travelling the world

58. WOMEN MAKE MOVIES | Visions Of The Spirit A Portrait Of Alice Walker
This intimate and inspiring portrait of Pulitzer Prizewinning author alice walker explores the compassion, insight and strength that have made her on.
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59. "Flowers" By Alice Walker
The Flowers by alice walker. Reading and Writing about Short Fiction. Ed. Edward Proffitt. NY Harcourt, 1988. 40405.
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It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse that the days had never been as beautiful as these. The air held a keenness that made her nose twitch. The harvesting of the corn and cotton, peanuts and squash, made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to run up her jaws. Myop carried a short, knobby stick. She struck out at random at chickens she liked, and worked out the beat of a song on the fence around the pigpen. She felt light and good in the warm sun. She was ten, and nothing existed for her but her song, the stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment, Turning her back on the rusty boards of her family's sharecropper cabin, Myop walked along the fence till it ran into the stream made by the spring. Around the spring, where the family got drinking water, silver ferns and wildflowers grew. Along the shallow banks pigs rooted. Myop watched the tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil and the water that silently rose and slid away down the stream. She had explored the woods behind the house many times. Often, in late autumn, her mother took her to gather nuts among the fallen leaves. Today she made her own path, bouncing this way and that way, vaguely keeping an eye out for snakes. She found, in addition to various common but pretty ferns and leaves, an armful of strange blue flowers with velvety ridges and a sweet suds bush full of the brown, fragrant buds.

60. From Alice Walker On Wheatley
from In Search of Our Mothers Gardens by alice walker. .For these grandmothers and mothers of ours were not Saints, but Artists; driven to a numb
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from "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" by Alice Walker "....For these grandmothers and mothers of ours were not "Saints," but Artists; driven to a numb and bleeding madness by the springs of creativity in them for which there was no release....But this is not the end of the story, for all the young womenour mothers and grandmothers, ourselveshave not perished in the wilderness. And if we ask ourselves why, and search for and find the answer, we will know beyond all efforts to erase it from our minds, just exactly who, and of what, we Black American women are. One example, perhaps the most pathetic, most misunderstood one, can provide a backdrop for our mother's work: Phillis Wheatley, a slave in the 1700s. Virginia Woolf, in her book, A Room of One's Own, wrote that in order for a woman to write fiction she must have two things, certainly: a room of her own (with key and lock) and enough money to support herself. What then are we to make of Phillis Wheatley, a slave, who owned not even herself? This sickly, frail, Black girl who required a servant of her own at timesher health was so precariousand who, had she been white, would have been easily considered the intellectual superior of all the women and most of the men in the society of her day. Virginia Woolf wrote further, speaking of course not of our Phillis, that "any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century [insert eighteen century, insert Black woman, insert born or made a slave] would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard [insert Saint], feared and mocked at. For it needs little skill and psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by contrary instincts [add chains, guns, the lash, the ownership of one's body by someone else, submission to an alien religion] that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty."

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