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| Name: |
Alice Malsenior Walker | | Birth Date: |
February 9, 1944 | | Place of Birth: |
Eatonton, Georgia, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
African American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
novelist |
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Biography of Alice Malsenior Walker
1,316 words, approx. 4 pages
 Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Alice Walker (born 1944) was best known for her stories about black women who achieve heroic stature within the confines of their ordinary day-to-day lives. Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton,...
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Biography of Alice (Malsenior) Walker
13,406 words, approx. 45 pages
 [This entry was updated by Donna Haisty Winchell (Clemson University) from her entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 277-292.] Alice Walker knows firsthand the social and political consequences of being a black...
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Biography of Alice Walker
10,102 words, approx. 34 pages
 Walker was born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, about seventy-five miles southeast of Atlanta. She was the youngest of eight children, five boys and three girls, all of whom lived in a three-or four-room house in the country. Her father, Willie...



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Alice Walker Quotes
745 words, approx. 3 pages
 Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author whose most famous novel, The Color Purple , won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. Sourced Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Walker, Alice (1944—) Summary
990 words, approx. 3 pages Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her 1982 novel The Color Purple. By that time she was already a well-established and published writer, but it was the Pulitzer that catapulted her into international recognition. Her...
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Walker, Alice Summary
16,563 words, approx. 55 pages The acclaimed writer of the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel The Color Purple (1982), Walker has asserted that for her writing is a way to correct wrongs that she observes in the world, and that she has dedicated herself to delineating the unique dual...
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Alice Walker Information
2,025 words, approx. 7 pages
 Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her critically acclaimed novel The Color...




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 The Washington Post
Alice Walker Trips
05/07/1989: 953 words, approx. 3 pages THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR By Alice Walker Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 416 pp. $19.95 WITH The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker seems to have been striving to write a big book, the kind writers used to feel they had to...
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 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Alice Walker collection lacks vigor
10/01/2000: 556 words, approx. 2 pages Alice Walker collection lacks vigor, freshness By THRITY UMRIGAR Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, October 1, 2000 The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart. By Alice Walker. Random House. 200 pages. $23.95. Alice Walker's new collection, "The...
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 AP News
Alice Walker placing lit papers at Emory
12/18/2007: 360 words, approx. 1 pages Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker is placing her literary archive at Emory University's library.The author of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Color Purple," "By the Light of My Father's Smile" and other works visits Emory every couple of years for readings and meetings with...
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Oprah at Chicago premiere of 'Purple'
5/4/2007: 291 words, approx. 1 pages Maybe the carpet should have been purple, instead of red. Twenty-two years after making her Hollywood debut in the movie version of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and two years after her Broadway debut as producer of the musical of the same name, Oprah Winfrey...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Philip M. Royster
9,815 words, approx. 33 pages
 In the following essay, Royster discusses the complicated relationship between Walker and her audience and asserts that Walker's female protagonists are representations of Walker's perceptions of herself.
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Critical Essay by J. Charles Washington
9,759 words, approx. 33 pages
 In the following essay, Washington asserts that Walker does present some positive black male images in her work, and that her criticism of black men and women is in the spirit of helping them to grow and improve.
Featured Essays
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Character Sketch of Momma in "Everyday Use"
847 words, approx. 3 pages
 In "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, the character of Momma is a loving, hard-working African-American woman who is concerned that her daughter, Dee, doesn't understand her heritage and the opportunities that she has been given.


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