1995
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Alice Walker is widely recognized as one of the major American writers of this century. With over ten million copies of her books in print worldwide, her influence is felt not only in the literary world, but also in the political arena. On My Life as My Self, this extraordinary figure takes listeners into her private world and summons the powerful spirits and events that have shaped her life: how she learned to fight oppression through her creativity—her reconnection to ancestral roots and the natural world—her emergence as a courageous artist, recognized for both her brilliance and her compassion."A delight to hear. Walker provides a rare, intimate conversation as she examines her life, and looks to the greatest struggle we each face - to be who we truly are". — Feminist Bookstore News
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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.
