Alice Walker, Author Washington Square Press $20.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-671-00377-7
Walker's memoir of the personal dilemmas and controversy surrounding release of the film based on The Color Purple. (Jan.)
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Alice Walker. New Press, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59558-872-2
In linking meditation to wandering, the distinguished and prolific Walker, whose books include the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning The Color Purple, produces a meandering assortment of her ideas and musings between 2008 and 2012...
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Alice Walker. New Press (Perseus, dist.), $21.95 (208 p) ISBN 978-1-59558-645-2
Writers must imagine their audience. This seems a fundamental enough concept, particularly for a Pulitzer Prize winner like Walker (The Color Purple). The intended reader of these 37 chronicles, however, feels rather murky. At least that is, until...
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Alice Walker, Author Random House (NY) $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-45587-5
HIn 13 affectionate stories, Walker (The Color Purple; By the Light of My Father's Smile) reflects on the nature of passion and friendship, pondering the emotional trajectories of lives and loves. Some of the pieces are directly autobiographical, as
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Alice Walker, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $24.95 (463p) ISBN 978-0-15-140040-9
Composed, wry, unshaken by adversity, Walker ( The Color Purple ) in her poetry brings a woman's wisdom to bear on love, life's unavoidable tragedies, blacks' struggle for equality and justice, and a globe spinning toward eco-suicide. The collection
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Alice Walker, Author Random House (NY) $23 (225p) ISBN 978-0-679-45584-4
Walker's commitment to activism--in its myriad cultural, political and spiritual forms--shines forth convincingly in this wide-ranging collection of personal essays, remarks, letters, speeches and statements, many previously published. Tracing her...
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Alice Walker, Author Scribner Book Company $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-81419-3
Walker's latest book finds the Pulitzer Prize-winning author still grappling with criticism of the film version of her novel The Color Purple. She continues to defend her depiction of an abusive black man as well as her decision to use Steven...
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Alice Walker, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-15-100061-6
Female genital mutilation is still widely practiced in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Walker, whose 1992 novel Possessing the Secret of Joy explored the life of a genitally mutilated African woman, teamed up with Indian filmmaker Parmar (who was...
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Alice Walker, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $19.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-15-188533-6
Part love story, part fable, part feminist manifesto, part political statement, Walker's new novel follows a cast of interrelated characters, most of them black, and each representing a different ethnic strain--ranging from diverse African tribes to
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Alice Walker, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-15-152900-1
An uneasy mix of journal entries, short essays, travel notes, speeches and dream fragments, this miscellany by the author of The Color Purple is most satisfying when Walker relates small personal victories. She explains why she refuses to cut her...
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Alice Walker, Author Mariner Books $14 (224p) ISBN 978-0-15-652865-8
``An uneasy mix of journal entries, short essays, travel notes, speeches and dream fragments, this miscellany by the author of The Color Purple is most satisfying when Walker relates small personal victories,'' wrote PW. Pointed pieces tackle the...
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Alice Walker, New World Library, $18 (176p) ISBN 978-1-57731-930-6
Walker is of course well known as the author of the novel The Color Purple as well as other works of prose, but she has also published books of poetry throughout her career. Her poetic goals are more inspirational than literary. Poetry is, for her,...
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Alice Walker, Author Random House Inc $22.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-375-50152-4
A passionate but somewhat misguided polemic against the abuses of patriarchy, Walker's first novel since Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) tells the story of two daughters who overcome the sexual repression forced on them by their anthropologist...
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Alice Walker, Author . New Press $23.95 (257p) ISBN 978-1-59558-137-2
Often rambling and occasionally pedantic, the essays in Walker's latest collection can also be stunningly insightful. Mixing prose with poetry, she discusses Martin Luther King, feminism and meditation, among other subjects, always circling back
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Alice Walker, Author . Random $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6173-0
Kate Talkingtree, the 57-year-old writer protagonist of Walker's latest concoction, is a lifelong seeker after enlightenment in the carnal, political and religious realms. After dreaming of a dry river, she decides to take this as a spiritual...
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Alice Walker, Author . Random $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-50904-9
"You/ are/ the sister/ The big/ Sister/ As hero," Alice Walker writes near the beginning of her sixth volume of poems: "The one who sees/ The one who listens/ The one who guides/ Teaches/ & protects." Some of Walker's fans...
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Alice Walker, Author, Catherine Deeter, Illustrator , illus. by Catherine Deeter. HarperCollins/Amistad $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-021518-7
Deeter (who also collaborated with the author on Finding the Green Stone
and To Hell with Dying) contributes imposing artwork to Walker's first book for children, originally published in 1974. Impressively meshing realism and symbolism, the...
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Alice Walker, Author, Catherine Deeter, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $8 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-289074-2
An adult sensibility infuses this evocative work, which is somewhat long for the picture book format, and more of a memoir than a linear narrative. Deeter's naturalistic paintings fairly burst with color. All ages. (Feb.)
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Alice Walker, Author, Catherine Deeter, Illustrator , illus. by Catherine Deeter. HarperTrophy/Amistad $7.99 (37p) ISBN 978-0-06-079889-5
"Deeter contributes imposing artwork to Walker's first book for children, originally published in 1974, impressively meshing realism and symbolism in her period paintings," wrote PW
. Ages 7-11. (Jan.)
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Alice Walker, Author, James Walker, Author Harcourt Brace $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-173152-7
Pulitzer Prize winner Walker illustrates the truism that violence begets violence in this strong-voiced but often stridentan obvious novel? and polemical novel. The focus of Walker's rage is the practice of female circumcision in African cultures....
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Alice Walker, Author, Julie Rubenstein, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-68399-3
Part love story, part fable, part feminist manifesto, part political statement, Walker's novel follows a cast of interrelated characters, most of them black. and each representing a differ ent ethnic strain that contributes to the black experience...
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Alice Walker, Author, A. Walker, Author, Catherine Deeter, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $20 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-227538-9
``In a small community on the Earth,'' every person and animal possesses a shiny green stone. If a stone's owner shows warmth, love and respect to others, his stone glows, but negative actions and feelings cause the stone to become dull and gray...
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Alice Walker, Author, Stefano Vitale, Illustrator , illus. by Stefano Vitale. HarperCollins $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-075385-6
In a startlingly graphic exploration of the horrors of war, Vitale (When the Wind Stops
) first paints folk-like landscapes in his signature style, showing graceful, brown-skinned mothers cuddling their children, and birds soaring through the jungle.
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Alice Walker, Author, Stefano Vitale, Illustrator , illus. by Stefano Vitale. HarperCollins $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-057080-4
Walker (The Color Purple
; Finding the Green Stone
) praises the surroundings that fortify the human experience. In her vision, people do not work their will on the things around them, but rather the people and the universe influence each other: "
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Alice Walker, Author, Bill Grose, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-671-78942-8
Pulitzer Prize winner Walker illustrates the truism that violence begets violence in this strong-voiced but often strident and polemical novel, a 17-week PW bestseller, which focuses on the practice of female circumcision in African cultures. (June)
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Edited by Valerie Boyd. Simon & Schuster, $37.50 (560p) ISBN 978-1-4767-7315-5
Over three decades of journal entries from Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker come together in this impressive compendium. Things start off with Walker as a university student, having just moved to Sarah Lawrence University in the Bronx from Spelman
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Alice Walker, illus. by Queenbe Monyei. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-308991-4
Walker shares a vision of oneness with the world in this evocative picture book filled with centering imagery. “There is a road/ At the bottom/ Of my/ Foot/ Walking me,” reads one passage that’s emblematic of the reverse perspective on display,...
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