Alice Walker

Author · 49 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

The Color Purple Collection book cover 1

The Color Purple Collection

Series · 3 books

By Alice Walker

Books

The Flowers

2025

The Color Purple Collection

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

2012

In Love & Trouble

Stories of Black Women

1973

Finding the Green Stone

1991

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for

Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

2006

Alice Walker Banned

1996

Why War Is Never a Good Idea

2007

The World Has Changed

Conversations with Alice Walker

2010

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart

2004

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

1985

To Hell with Dying

1967

The Complete Stories

1994

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

Fifty North American Stories Since 1970

1999

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

The Journals of Alice Walker

2020

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down

1971

The Third Life of Grange Copeland; Meridian; The Color Purple

1985

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm

Poems and Drawings

2003

Everyday Use

1973

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

New Poems

2003

Looking for Zora

1975

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me

2006

Revolutionary Petunias

1973

The Color Purple

1982

The Temple of My Familiar

1989

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

New Poems

2010

The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart

2000

The Same River Twice

1996

By the Light of My Father's Smile

1998

The Cushion in the Road

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

2013

Gardening the Soul

2000

Once

1968

Overcoming Speechlessness

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

2009

The World Will Follow Joy

Turning Madness into Flowers

2013

Langston Hughes

American Poet

1974

My Life as My Self

An Intimate Conversation

1995

Sent by Earth

2001

Anything We Love Can Be Saved

1997

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

2018

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

Womanist Prose

1983

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