Alice Walker

Author · 55 books

Alice Walker, one of the United States’ preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple, which also won the National Book Award. Her other books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. In her public life, Walker has worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.

Series

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The Color Purple Collection

Series · 3 books

Books

Nineteen Fifty-Five

2026

My Warrior, My Hero

I Will Never Forget You: A Story of Loyalty, and a Heartfelt Journey of Healing

2025

The Flowers

2025

من سرگذشت یأسم و امید

سیزده جستار

2023

Mouths of Rain

An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

2021

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

The Journals of Alice Walker

2020

Sweet People Are Everywhere

2019

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

2018

The World Will Follow Joy

Turning Madness into Flowers

2013

The Cushion in the Road

Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

2013

The Color Purple Collection

The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy

2012

The Color Purple / The Temple of My Familiar

2011

The Chicken Chronicles

Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir

2011