Alice Walker (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Alice Walker published several volumes of short fiction, poetry, and essays in addition to her novels. Walker was an early editor at Ms. magazine, in which many of her essays first appeared. Her interest in the then little-known writer Zora Neale Hurston led to her pilgrimage to Florida to place a tombstone on Hurston’s unmarked grave, to Walker’s editing of I Love Myself When I Am Laughing … and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora...

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