Alice Walker: A LifeA full-length portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer draws on letters, journals, and interviews to discuss her birth into a family of Georgia sharecroppers, the childhood accident that left her blind in one eye and sympathetic to human suffering, her activism during the 1960s, and her literary achievements. 30,000 first printing. |
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User Review - JaneReading - LibraryThingA wonderful biography, beautifully-written, illuminating, and rich in detail and interest, but not nearly as well-done as she herself would do it - if she were so inclined! Her journey is fascinating, and she perhaps will tell it herself someday. I hope so. Read full review
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThe Color Purple gave Alice Walker her greatest acclaim (and a Pulitzer Prize), but the novel and its movie adaptation were not without controversy. Walker was attacked for portraying black men ... Read full review
Contents
Georgia the Whole Day Through | 3 |
Babies and Stumps | 9 |
Roots | 16 |
Shift for Self | 23 |
Booker T | 29 |
I Been Cryin | 33 |
Knights in Shining Armor | 41 |
A Long Walk | 49 |
Life Is the Award | 283 |
Meridian | 285 |
Refuge | 294 |
Correct Relationship | 301 |
Country People | 308 |
An Ugly One at That | 313 |
A Room to Move Into | 326 |
Radically Brilliant | 334 |
Order My Steps | 56 |
Nobody in Atlanta | 66 |
Forbidden Things | 78 |
Fit for Myself to Know | 85 |
To Have and to Hold | 97 |
Make Yourself Useful | 99 |
Reclaimed | 108 |
New York | 121 |
Live or Die | 132 |
In a Biblical Way | 139 |
Tulips | 147 |
Beyond Daily Bread | 155 |
That Alice ? | 160 |
Nude | 170 |
Watered with Blood | 180 |
Conformity is not Community | 185 |
The Children Grow in Love | 199 |
A Kindred Lover of Beauty | 206 |
A Kiss on Both Sides | 215 |
Love the Questions | 225 |
Good Night Willie Lee | 239 |
We Are a People | 245 |
Changes | 260 |
How Rare We Were | 267 |
We Were a Part of It | 276 |
At a Double Remove | 340 |
God Love All Them Feelings | 346 |
The Balance Had Begun to Tilt | 352 |
Some of Our Work | 358 |
Through It All | 362 |
I Try to Make Sense | 370 |
The Glimpse of Life beyond the Words | 383 |
Something to Lift Spirits | 392 |
Guide and Protect | 400 |
More Than Many Hoped | 416 |
She Liked Everything She Saw | 423 |
The World Is Held Together | 428 |
They Saw the Airplane Coming | 438 |
Its All Love | 455 |
Chronology | 465 |
Publications List | 468 |
Wild Trees Press Publications List | 470 |
Acknowledgments | 471 |
Source Notes | 475 |
| 514 | |
Permissions | 520 |
Photo Credits | 522 |
| 525 | |
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| Title | Alice Walker: A Life |
| Author | Evelyn C. White |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0393058913, 9780393058918 |
| Length | 538 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures |
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