Alice Walker: A LifeDrawing on papers, letters, journals, and extensive interviews with Walker, her family, friends, and colleagues, and with leading American cultural figures including Gloria Steinem, Quincy Jones, and Oprah Winfrey, White assesses one of the most influential writers of modern time. |
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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 |
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Permissions | 520 |
Photo Credits | 522 |
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