"The Color Purple The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the Southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most"
"Radio Academy Awards Silver Drama Award. As part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), the author declined publication of the book in Israel in 2012. Walker, an ardent pro-Palestinian activist, said in a letter to Yediot Books that Israel practices ""apartheid"" and must change its policies before her works can be published there. This decision was criticized by Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, who argued that Walker ""resorted to bigotry and censorship against Hebrew-speaking readers of her writings"". The Color Purple The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer"
"and her classic novel ""Their Eyes Were Watching God"" back to the attention of the literary world. In 1982, Walker won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel ""The Color Purple"". An epistolary novel (a book written in the form of letters), ""The Color Purple"" tells the story of Celie, a young woman who is sexually abused by her stepfather and then is forced to marry a man who physically abuses her. The novel was later made into a film by Steven Spielberg. The 1970s also saw African-American books topping the bestseller lists. Among the"
"the Bone"", which was published in 1991. Her second Texas-based mystery, ""Red Scream"", was Walker's first to feature sleuth Molly Cates. ""Red Scream"" won the Best Mystery Edgar Award in 1993. ""Under the Beetle's Cellar"", published in 1995, was Walker's third mystery. Mary Willis Walker Mary Willis Walker (born May 24, 1942, Fox Point, Wisconsin) is an American crime fiction author. Walker graduated from Duke University in English and took up high school teaching. She married in 1967 to Lee Walker who became president of Dell Computers, living in New York and Virginia before moving to Austin, Texas. They have"
"died in Portland on May 27, 1998. Her last novel, ""The Orange Tree"" remained unfinished at the time of her death. Walker published her first novel, ""Fireweed,"" in 1934, while she attended the University of Michigan as a graduate student. ""Fireweed"" earned Walker the Avery Hopwoood Award, the biggest prize then awarded from an American University, and $1,500. This income enabled Walker and her family to move to Great Falls, Montana. Schemm was highly supportive of Walker’s writing career. He agreed to engage a housekeeper, allowing Walker to devote most of her time to writing. Only Schemm and Roy Cowden,"
"win the Man Booker Prize for ""The English Patient"". Margaret Atwood won the Booker in 2000 for ""The Blind Assassin"" and Yann Martel won it in 2002 for the ""Life of Pi"". Carol Shields's ""The Stone Diaries"" won the Governor General's Awards in Canada in 1993, the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2013, Alice Munro was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as ""master of the modern short story"". Munro is also a recipient of the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime"
"was published. ""Meridian"" is a novel about activist workers in the South, during the civil rights movement, with events that closely parallel some of Walker's own experiences. In 1982, she published what has become her best-known work, ""The Color Purple"". The novel follows a young, troubled black woman fighting her way through not just racist white culture but patriarchal black culture as well. The book became a bestseller and was subsequently adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as a 2005 Broadway musical totaling 910 performances. Walker has"
"Alice Adams (novel) Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and, more famously, in 1935 by George Stevens. The narrative centers on the character of a young woman (the eponymous Alice Adams) who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I. The novel begins with Virgil Adams"
"and Walker is an influential figure for younger authors. She was the first of a generation of women who started publishing more novels in the 1970s. In 1975, Walker released three albums of poetry on Folkways Records – ""Margaret Walker Alexander Reads Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes""; ""Margaret Walker Reads Margaret Walker and Langston Hughes""; and ""The Poetry of Margaret Walker"". Walker received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1989. In 1978, Margaret Walker sued Alex Haley, claiming that his 1976 novel """" had violated ""Jubilee""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s copyright"
"current scholarly conversation. At the turn of the 20th century, non-fiction works by authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington debated how to confront racism in the United States. During the Civil Rights Movement, authors such as Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about issues of racial segregation and black nationalism. Today, African-American literature has become accepted as an integral part of American literature, with books such as """" by Alex Haley, ""The Color Purple"" (1982) by Alice Walker, which won the Pulitzer Prize; and ""Beloved"" by Toni Morrison achieving both best-selling and award-winning status."
"retired from Wells College and moved to the Walker family summer house in Grafton, Vermont where she remained for 18 years. There she completed ""If a Lion Could Talk"", published in 1970, and her only children’s book, ""A Piece of the World"", published in 1972, which tells the story of a rock left behind by a receding glacier. Starting in 1986, Walker suffered a series of strokes which significantly affected her physical and mental abilities. She continued to work on her last novel ""The Orange Tree"" until her death in 1998. She spent nearly two decades revising the novel but"
"2013. Memento Films and Killer Films produced a film adaptation of ""Still Alice,"" starring Julianne Moore in her Academy Award-winning role as Alice Howland, and co-starring Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth. Still Alice (novel) Still Alice is a 2007 novel by Lisa Genova, set in Boston. The novel is about a woman who suffers early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland, a 50-year-old woman, is a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned linguistics expert. She is married to an equally successful husband, and they have three grown children. The disease takes hold swiftly, and it changes Alice’s relationship"
"involved some sort of writing, as well."" Walker moved away from Florida when she was seventeen years old. For graduate school, Walker attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received a PhD in Political Science. On October 1, 2012, Walker published her first novel, ""Time's Twisted Arrow"", which was a 351-page novel that was published with the help of Kindle Direct Publishing. In January 2013, Walker decided to enter ""Time's Twisted Arrow"" into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, a book contest pitting 10,000 self-published and unpublished novels with a grand prize of $50,000 and a publishing"
"Meridian (novel) Meridian is a 1976 novel by American author Alice Walker. It has been described as Walker's ""meditation on the modern civil rights movement."" ""Meridian"" is about Meridian Hill, a young black woman in the late 1960s who is attending college as she embraces the civil rights movement at a time when the movement becomes violent. The story follows her life into the 1970s through a relationship that ultimately fails, and her continued efforts to support the movement. Set in the 1960s and 1970s, ""Meridian"" centers on Meridian Hill, a student at the fictitious Saxon College, who becomes active"
"Julie Ann Walker Julie Ann Walker is a ""New York Times"" and ""USA Today"" Best Selling American author, known for her ""Black Knights Inc."" and ""Deep Six"" series. Prior to becoming a full-time author, Walker worked as a high school mathematics teacher. Walker writes stories of romance and romantic suspense. Her first novel, ""Hell on Wheels"", landed on the ""USA Today""s Best-Selling Books list in September 2012. That same month, her second novel, ""In Rides Trouble"", hit ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list. Most of Walker's novels have been ranked on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list and"
"the largest feminist publisher in the English language during the key period of the second wave of the women's liberation movement, largely considered to have run from 1969 to the mid-1980s. The first books of The Women's Press published in 1978, included titles by Alice Munro (""Lives of Girls and Women""), Sylvia Townsend Warner (""Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman""), and Michèle Roberts (""A Piece of the Night""). The Women's Press published other influential twentieth century feminist writers including Alice Walker, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Colour Purple 'transformed African-American literature'. Janet Frame, Dowrick was Chair of The Women’s Press Board"
"as her consciousness disintegrates around her. The Spanish-language version of the book can be seen in Pedro Almodóvar's ""The Skin I Live In"" (2011). The second, third and fourth stories in the book – ""Chance"", ""Soon"" and ""Silence"" – provided the basis for Almodóvar screenplay for his later film ""Julieta"" (2016). Runaway (book) Runaway is a book of short stories by Alice Munro. First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, it was awarded that year's Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.<ref name=""writerstrust.com/RogersFiction""></ref> There are eight short stories in the book. Three of the stories (""Chance"", ""Soon"", and"
"novel ""Skinwalkers"" won the 1988 Anthony Award for ""Best Novel"" and in the following year ""A Thief of Time"" was nominated for the 1989 Anthony Award in the same category. His next nomination was for his ""Talking Mysteries"" non-fictional work which was nominated at the 1992 Anthony Awards. His novel ""Sacred Clowns"" received a ""Best Novel"" nomination at the 1994 Anthony Awards; and the following year his short-story collection ""The Mysterious West"" won the 1995 Anthony Award in the ""Best Anthology/Short Story Collection"" category. His last win came at the 2002 Anthony Awards at which he won the ""Best Non-fiction/Critical"
"fantasizes about winning Miss Pratt by the rescue of precious little Flopit from an automobile's rushing wheels. In June 2019, The Library of America will publish ""Booth Tarkington: Novels & Stories"" , collecting ""The Magnificent Ambersons"" and ""Alice Adams"" and ""In the Arena: Stories of Political Life"". Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ""The Magnificent Ambersons"" and ""Alice Adams"". He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike."
"Brown, published 2014. This is the first biography of Margaret Walker. Margaret Walker Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include the award-winning poem ""For My People"" (1942) and the novel ""Jubilee"" (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War. Walker was born in Texas, Alabama, to Sigismund C. Walker, a minister, and Marion (née Dozier) Walker, who helped their daughter by teaching her philosophy"
"In this book, Walker details her interracial relationship with Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a civil rights attorney who was also working in Mississippi. The couple married on March 17, 1967 in New York City, since interracial marriage was then illegal in the South, and divorced in 1976. They had a daughter, Rebecca, together in 1969. Rebecca Walker, Alice Walker's only child, is an American novelist, editor, artist, and activist. The Third Wave Foundation, an activist fund, was founded with the help of Rebecca. Her godmother is Alice Walker's mentor and co-founder of ""Ms. Magazine"", Gloria Steinem. In 2007, Walker donated her"
"would give her beautifully shaped sketches solidity…In her ninth novel, she has arrived at a new level of power.” Her tenth novel, ""The Accidental Tourist"", was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1985, the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1986, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. It was also made into a 1988 movie starring William Hurt and Geena Davis. The popularity of this well-received film further increased the growing public awareness of her work. Her 11th novel, ""Breathing Lessons"", received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was Time"
"after Celie realizes that she is content in her life without Shug, Shug returns, having ended things with Germaine. The end of the novel has Nettie, Samuel, Olivia, Adam, and Tashi arriving at Celie's house. Nettie and Celie embrace, having not seen each other for over 30 years. They introduce one another to their respective families as the novel ends. ""The Color Purple"" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983, making Walker the first black woman to win the prize. Walker also won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1983. Mel Watkins of the ""New York Times Book"
"Alice Walker the publishing company called Wild Trees Press, publishing the work of Third World writers. Robert L. Allen Robert Lee Allen (born May 29, 1942) is an activist, writer, and Adjunct Professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Allen received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco, and previously taught at San José State University and Mills College. He was Senior Editor (with Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Robert Chrisman) of ""The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research"", published quarterly or more frequently in Oakland, California, by the Black"
"the home of many influential writers of the 20th century, including Margaret Mitchell, author of ""Gone With the Wind"", one of the best-selling books of all time; Alice Walker, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning and critically acclaimed novel ""The Color Purple""; Alfred Uhry, playwright of ""Driving Miss Daisy"", which deals with Jewish residents of Atlanta in the early 20th century; and Joel Chandler Harris, author of the ""Brer Rabbit"" children's stories. Famous journalists include Ralph McGill, the anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the ""Atlanta Constitution"" newspaper. Atlanta is also the home of contemporary editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich, who is syndicated nationally"
"lives of Rosa Parks, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, and Virginia Woolf. ""A Midwife's Tale"" examines the life of Northern New England midwife Martha Ballard, and provides a vivid examination of ordinary life in the early American republic, including the role of women in the household and local market economy, the nature of marriage and sexual relations, aspects of medical practice, and the prevalence of violence and crime. Ulrich's revelatory history was honored with the Pulitzer Prize. ""A Midwife's Tale"" also received the Bancroft Prize, the John H. Dunning Prize, the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, the Berkshire"
"most important African-American writers of the 20th century. Her first novel, ""The Bluest Eye"", was published in 1970. Among her most famous novels is ""Beloved"", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. This story describes a slave who found freedom but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery. Another important novel is ""Song of Solomon"", a tale about materialism, unrequited love, and brotherhood. Morrison is the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the 1970s novelist and poet Alice Walker wrote a famous essay that brought Zora Neale Hurston"
"11, 2016, Walker released ""The Delphi Effect"", which is the first book in her second series, ""The Delphi Trilogy"". It is often considered to be a work of Young adult fiction and paranormal fiction. In the novel, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan, the main character, has a mental condition in which she picks up mental hitchhikers unwillingly. When she picks up the spirit of a girl who has been brutally murdered, Anna starts to obtain information regarding a potential government conspiracy. The novel primarily focuses on Anna and how she reacts to the new knowledge that she has gained, along with the"
"Possessing the Secret of Joy Possessing the Secret of Joy is a 1992 novel by Alice Walker. It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel ""The Color Purple"". Now in the US she comes from Olinka, Alice Walker's fictional African nation where female genital mutilation is practiced. Tashi marries an American man named Adam then leaves Olinka because of the war. Tashi chooses to go back to Olinka to undergo circumcison because she is a woman torn between two cultures, Olinkan and Western. Instead of feeling free from not having the"
"almost driven off when she becomes enamoured on a visiting English aristocrat. The English aristocrat's interest turns out to be fleeting, and the story is an allegory for what Walker perceived as the naivety of the new world and the corruption of the old. Walker's second novel, ""Hollywood"", was published in 1875. In 1876, Walker published a collection entitled ""Plays for Children"". Walker's third novel, ""Against her Will"", was published in 1877. The novel tells the story of how a young woman copes with her father's illness. The protagonist's competence and strength of character evoke the contemporaneously developing idea of"
"The Reivers The Reivers: A Reminiscence, published in 1962, is the last novel by the American author William Faulkner. The bestselling novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963. Faulkner previously won this award for his book ""A Fable"", making him one of only three authors to be awarded it more than once. Unlike many of his earlier works, it is a straightforward narration and eschews the complicated literary techniques of his more well known works. It is a picaresque novel, and as such may seem uncharacteristically lighthearted given its subject matter. For these reasons, ""The Reivers"" is"
"during which she suffered many rejections from publishers. Alison Lurie Alison Lurie (born September 3, 1926) is an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel ""Foreign Affairs"". Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress. Lurie was born in Chicago but grew up in White Plains, New York, the daughter of Bernice (Stewart) and Harry Lawrence Lurie, a Latvian-born professor. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1947. The next year she married Jonathan Peale Bishop, then a graduate"
"Margaret Walker Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include the award-winning poem ""For My People"" (1942) and the novel ""Jubilee"" (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War. Walker was born in Texas, Alabama, to Sigismund C. Walker, a minister, and Marion (née Dozier) Walker, who helped their daughter by teaching her philosophy and poetry as a child. Her family moved to New Orleans"