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ALICE WALKER
Alice Walker has been
writing politically and socially provocative fiction (short stories and novels),
non-fiction and poetry since the 1960s. She has won numerous awards for her
stories, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The
Color Purple (published in 1982). More than once,
Alice
has endured a backlash of criticism from the
African-American writer's community that she portrays black men too harshly.
Perhaps in explanation, she published In Search of Our Mother's Garden
in 1983 which contained many essays on her "womanist" ideology.
Alice
continued to write prolifically and successfully
throughout the 1980s, concluding that decade with her epic novel The Temple
of My Familiar. In 1991 she published a children's story, Finding the
Green Stone. This was soon followed by her fifth novel Possessing the
Secret of Joy which chronicles the psychic trauma of one woman's life after
forced genital mutilation. Between this and her next novel, By the Light of
My Father's Smile, which came six years later, in September 1998, Alice
continued to write and publish poetry and non-fiction. Alice's newest work is a
collection of stories called The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart. The
stories combine autobiography and fiction as Alice examines the bindings and
breakings of relationships with friends, family and lovers.
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