Alice Walker
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- The Color Purple (Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Kindred Spirits (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
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- The Color Purple (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Color Purple (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- African American Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- African American Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Color Purple (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- Possessing the Secret of Joy (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- The Color Purple (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Meridian (Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition)
- Meridian (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
- Meridian (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- To Hell with Dying (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Once (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Alice Walker
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Alice Walker wrote her first book of poetry and published her first short story in her final year at Sarah Lawrence College in 1968. Her works have come from her own experience and accomplishment. She grew up in poverty, in which seven brothers and sisters and her sharecropping parents shared impossibly cramped quarters and worked for profit that was never their own. She experienced the inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr. She was asked to sit in the back of the bus on her way to Spelman College. She saw the failure of her college to offer courses in African...
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