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Alice Walker
Alice Walker (born 1944)

poet, essayist, civil rights advocate, educator, actor, film producer, climate activist

  • Sarah Lawrence College, Spelman College

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The Color Purple
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
The World Will Follow Joy Turning Madness Into Flowers New Poems
Meridian
Possessing the Secret of Joy
The Temple of My Familiar
I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
Now is the Time to Open Your Heart
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
The Same River Twice
The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition
The third life of Grange Copeland
Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Anything We Love Can Be Saved
Fiction
In love & trouble
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
By The Light of My Father's Smile
The way forward is with a broken heart
Warrior Marks
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
In Search of Our Mother's Garden
Alice Walker banned
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition
Fictions--Second Edition
Langston Hughes
Perrine's Story and Structure--Twelfth Edition
Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
Living by the word
Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
Her blue body everything we know
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
Fiction, A Pocket Anthology--Fifth Edition
Barracoon
World Literature
Fiction 100
The chicken chronicles
Absolute trust in the goodness of the earth
Horses make a landscape look more beautiful
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Readers Companion--Silver Level
Reader's Companion--Bronze Level
Perrine's Story and Structure--Tenth Edition
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition
Prentice Hall Literature
Once
We are the ones we have been waiting for
A poem traveled down my arm
Everyday use
Why War Is Never a Good Idea
The Carolina reader--writing about literature 2008
To hell with dying
Exploring Literature -- Fourth Edition
The Cushion in the Road
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Second Edition
The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
Sent by Earth
Finding the green stone
There is a flower at the tip of my nose smelling me
Color Purple / Temple of My Familiar
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
Overcoming Speechlessness
Literature - Structure, sound, and sense - Fourth Edition
Dreads
The Complete Stories
Quartet of Stories
Hard times require furious dancing
The Winchester Reader
The Range of Literature FICTION
Quartet of Poems
Howard Zinn's Southern diary
Gathering Blossoms under Fire
Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories
Cyrano de Bergerac and related readings
Giving Birth, Finding Form
Color Purple / Meridian / Third Life of Grange Copeland
Revolutionary petuniasand other poems
Selected from in the Temple of My Familiar
Collected Poems Her Blue Body Everything We Know Earthling Poems 19651990
A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down / In Love & In Trouble / The Third Life of Grange Copeland
The Writer on Her Work
Art Against Apartheid
Gardening the Soul (New Dimensions)
Taking the arrow out of the heart
Troilus and Cressida
This is not a border
Indispensable Zinn
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
Roselily
My Life As Myself
Meridian
To Hell with Dying
Southern writers
Nineteen Fifty Five
Poetry
In Love and Trouble
Celebration of Black Women in Literature Alice Walker (H0800213)
Color Purple Collection
World Will Follow Joy
Third Life of Grange Copeland
Bigger Than Bravery
Mommy Says I Have Butterflies
Sent by Earth
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Black Expressions Rediscoveries
Warrior Marks
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
DIY Household Hacks
Meridian
Het geheim van de vreugde
The Temple of My Familiar
Modern Stories in English
Poem Traveled down My Arm
Chicken Chronicles
El color púrpura
Chicken Chronicles
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Tanya Holland's California Soul
Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
El color púrpura
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Color Purple
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
Same River Twice
Revolutionary Petunias
Meridian (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Possessing the Secret of Joy
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
Women of Hope
Revolutionary Petunias
Chicken Chronicles : Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
Het Derde Leven Van Grange Copeland
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Her Blue Body Everything We Know
Meridian
There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me
Alice Walker
Living by the Word
Renklerden Moru; 1983 Pulitzer Ödülü
Once
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
Third Life of Grange Copeland
Temple of My Familiar
la couleur pourpre
Complete Stories
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
The Temple of My Familiar
By the Light of My Father's Smile
El color porpra
Textual Problems of the First Folio
Alice Walker Collection Volume 2
Possessing the Secret of Joy
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Die Farbe Lila
Cushion in the Road
Once
Color Purple (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
In Love and Trouble
Alice Walker Interview With Kay Bonetti
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
World Has Changed
Sweet People Are Everywhere (Children Around the World Books, Diversity Books)
Alice Walker Collection Volume 1
Living by the Word
ha-TsevaÊ» argaman
Edward Capell and his edition of Shakespeare