Walker, Alice 1944-

The third life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker( Book )
36 editions published between 1970 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 2,122 libraries worldwide
"Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he returns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield, imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As the guardian of the couple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland is looking at his third and final chance to free himself from spiritual and social enslavement." -- Back cover.

In love & trouble; stories of Black women by Alice Walker( Book )
14 editions published between 1973 and 2004 in English and held by 2,075 libraries worldwide
The desires and fears of the American black woman are explored with compassion and understanding in these thirteen short stories.

Living by the word : selected writings, 1973-1987 by Alice Walker( Book )
18 editions published between 1988 and 2005 in English and held by 2,050 libraries worldwide
The The Color Purple meditates on planetary concerns as well as on feminist and political issues in her most deeply spiritual work yet. She writes of our intimate connection with nature, focuses on racial questions, reports on trips to China, Bali, and Jamaica, and more.

Anything we love can be saved : a writer's activism by Alice Walker( Book )
33 editions published between 1997 and 2006 in English and held by 2,005 libraries worldwide
Speaking from the heart on a wide range of topics - religion and the spirit, writing and language, families and identity, politics and social change - Walker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and the roots of her activism, including reflections about religion in The Color Purple. She goes on to explore many important private and public issues: being a daughter and raising one, dreadlocks, banned books, civil rights, gender communication, and the ritual mutilation of children in Ghana. She writes about Zora Neale Hurston and Salman Rushdie and offers advice for Bill Clinton, for Fidel Castro, and for young women growing up. She comments on culture and cats, feminism and race, writing and living. Here are a wise woman's thoughts as she interacts with the world today, and an important portrait of an activist writer's life.

Warrior marks : female genital mutilation and the sexual blinding of women by Alice Walker( Book )
8 editions published between 1993 and 1996 in English and held by 1,906 libraries worldwide
In her best-selling 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker opened a painful door: she brought the issue of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world's women, to the attention of the reading public. For many readers, this first encounter with a subject previously unfamiliar to them was shocking and unforgettable. Alice Walker decided early in the process of writing her novel that she had not yet done enough to help stop this age-old practice. She resolved to make a documentary film that would further educate people about the harmful, sometimes deadly process of removing the clitoris - and often the remaining outer genitalia - as a means of maintaining tradition and ensuring a woman's "cleanliness" and fidelity. To make the film, Alice Walker teamed up with Indian-British filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, whose credits include several widely acclaimed documentaries focusing on issues of race, gender, and sexuality. This book chronicles their odyssey together. Warrior Marks describes a unique filmmaking journey, from Alice Walker's first letter to Pratibha Parmar proposing the idea of the film to the many journal entries and observations each of them made along the way. From California to England to Senegal, The Gambia, and Burkina Faso, Warrior Marks follows Walker and Parmar as they interview people who are concerned with and affected by the practice of female genital mutilation. The text includes transcripts of their interviews, three new poems by Alice Walker, and over fifty photographs offering a vivid and poignant portrayal of the people and places they visited. For its insights into the collaborative creative process, as well as its perceptions about the politics of filmmaking and the politics of feminism, Warrior Marks is an extraordinary volume. It is also the adventure of two remarkable women who together fulfilled a dream.

You can't keep a good woman down : stories by Alice Walker( Book )
4 editions published between 1981 and 1990 in English and held by 1,872 libraries worldwide
Fourteen short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning author about strong women--their struggles and joys.

I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive : a Zora Neale Hurston reader by Zora Neale Hurston( Book )
3 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 1,758 libraries worldwide
Anthology of essays, folklore and fiction by a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

Absolute trust in the goodness of the earth : new poems by Alice Walker( Book )
8 editions published between 2003 and 2007 in English and held by 1,666 libraries worldwide
"With profound artistry, Walker searches for, discovers, and declares the fundamental beauty of existence, as she explores what it means to live life fully, to learn from it, and to grow both as an individual and as part of a greater spiritual community"--Dustjacket.

Horses make a landscape look more beautiful : poems by Alice Walker( Book )
6 editions published between 1984 and 1986 in English and held by 1,552 libraries worldwide

Langston Hughes, American poet by Alice Walker( Book )
6 editions published between 1974 and 2002 in English and held by 1,449 libraries worldwide
A biography of the American poet whose works articulated the despair of blacks over social and economic conditions.