Dec 28, 2009
Although Alice Walker’s poetry is cherished by her admirers, she is primarily known as a fiction writer. The novel The Color Purple (1982), generally regarded as her masterpiece, achieved both popular and critical success, winning the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Steven Spielberg film of the same name, for which Walker acted as consultant, reached an immense international audience.
Other Walker fiction has received less attention. Her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), depicts violence and...
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