Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories
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Whether she is writing fiction or nonfiction, sharing personal reflections or expressing political views, Alice Walker is without question "one of [our] best American writers" (
). The first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize—for
—Walker is both a committed artist and engaged activist, as reflected in the four works in this volume
: In this "entertaining and often stirring" follow-up to
, Walker reflects on issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of
, to the history of African American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution and nuclear war (
).
: The women in these "consummately skillful short stories" face their problems head on, proving powerful and self-possessed even when degraded by others—sometimes by those closest to them (
). But even as the female protagonists face exploitation, social inequalities, and casual cruelties, Walker leavens her stories with ample wit and "[enters] their experience with sympathy but without sentimentality" (
).
: Walker's debut short fiction collection features stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in tow, with doubt and regret, with memories of lost loves, with lovers who have their own hard pasts and hard edges. Some from the South, some from the North, some rich, and some poor, the "marvelous characters" that inhabit
"come away transformed by knowledge and love but most of all by wonder" (
).
: In essays both personal and political about her own work and other writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, and Jean Toomer; the Civil Rights Movement; antinuclear activism; feminism; and a childhood injury that left her emotionally scarred and the healing words of her daughter, Walker "reflects not only ideas but a life that has breathed color, sound, and soul into fiction and poetry—and into our lives as well" (
).
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About Alice Walker
Alice Walker (b. 1944), 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
, which also won the National Book Award. Her other novels include
,
,
, and
. In her public life, Walker has worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.
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