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The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

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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
1316 words, approx. 4.4 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, Georgia,...
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Biography of Alice (Malsenior) Walker
13406 words, approx. 44.7 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 woman...
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Biography of Alice Walker
10102 words, approx. 33.7 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 Le...
 


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National Review
The Temple of My Familiar.
06/30/1989: 1,327 words, approx. 4 pages
ALICE WALKER has called her latest enterprise "a romance of the last 500,000 years," which turn out to have been about 499,999 years and fifty weeks too many for me. I didn't go for the "romance" part much either, maybe because a few...
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CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Questions of mastery in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar.
06/22/2002: 6,073 words, approx. 20 pages
Alice Walker was once on a panel of writers conducted by Tom LeClair, who asked the panel why no women wrote novels like Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Walker's answer was, "Why would they want to?" Nevertheless, The Temple of My Familiar has much...
 


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The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

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