Publication day is here for “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker,” a book that has kept Alice Walker fans waiting for an “intimate glimpse into an important writer’s life.” ...

Explore the life and career of Alice Walker, from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple" to her influence on modern literature and activism. Walker's body of work extends well beyond The ...

(RNS) — Alice Walker, the human rights advocate and celebrated author of, among other poetry and fiction, the award-winning 1982 novel “The Color Purple,” had been invited to the Bay Area Book ...

“I read the first Harry Potter novel and thought it extraordinary, Walker writes. “I felt something old and wise, fresh and exciting had been offered humanity. Life with its vicissitudes prevented ...

(JTA) – The bright, colorful movie musical “The Color Purple,” which opens in theaters on Christmas, tells a story that has by now become a familiar part of the American canon — of a young Black woman ...

For years, the public has responded to the celebrated author’s anti-Semitism by either sidelining her or ignoring her prejudice. We can do better. I wrote a piece laying out this bigotry in ...

“The Color Purple” is a novel about women, but one man takes up precious room. For much of the book, Celie, the narrator, refers to the epistolary novel’s principal patriarch (aside from the God to ...

The San Diego Community College District has asked Alice Walker to speak at the investiture of the new chancellor, Carlos O. Cortez. Walker’s continuing popularity is not hard to explain. She won the ...