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Also Known As Alice Malsenior Walker
Born February 9, 1944 (age 80) • Georgia
Awards And Honors National Book AwardPulitzer PrizeO. Henry Award (1986)
Notable Works “A Poem Traveled Down My Arm”“Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth”“By the Light of My Father’s Smile”“Gathering Blossoms Under Fire”“Hard Times Require Furious Dancing”“Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, Her”“In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”“Meridian”“Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart”“Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems”“Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon”“Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart”“The Chicken Chronicles”“The Color Purple”“The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way”“The Temple of My Familiar”“The Third Life of Grange Copeland”“The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”
Movement / Style Black Arts movement
Subjects Of Study “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth”

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