Alice Walker

Author · 54 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

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm

Poems and Drawings

2003

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

New Poems

2003

Alice Walker 3 volume set

The Color Purple, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, Now is the Time to Open Your Heart

2005

Alice Walker Banned

1996

Anything We Love Can Be Saved

1997

By the Light of My Father's Smile

1998

Everyday Use

1973

Finding the Green Stone

1991

Gardening the Soul

2000

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

The Journals of Alice Walker

2020

Goodnight Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning

1979

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

New Poems

2010

Her Blue Body Everything We Know

Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete

1991

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

1985

In Love & Trouble

Stories of Black Women

1973

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

Womanist Prose

1983

Langston Hughes

American Poet

1974

Living by the Word

Essays

1988

Looking for Zora

1975

Meridian

1976

Mouths of Rain

An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

2021

My Life as My Self

An Intimate Conversation

1995

My Warrior, My Hero

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

2025

Nineteen Fifty-Five

2026

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart

2004

Once

1968

Overcoming Speechlessness

A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

2009

Possessing the Secret of Joy

1992

Revolutionary Petunias

1973

Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems First Edition 1973

1973

Sent by Earth

2001

Sweet People Are Everywhere

2019

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

2018

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