The Oxford Companion to American Literature | Walker, Alice [Malsenior]
Walker, Alice [Malsenior]( 1944– ), Georgia-born author of fiction and poetry about African Americans. Her novels include The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), depicting violence among three generations of men in a black sharecropping family; Meridian (1976), about a black woman torn between the revolutionary civil rights movement of the 1960s in the North and her affection for the unsophisticated blacks of the South; The Color Purple (1982), treating two devoted sisters, black women, one of whom goes to live in Africa; The Temple of My Familiar (1989), involving three marriages over a long period of time and place, ranging from pre-colonial Africa, post-slavery North Carolina, and modern San Francisco; By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998), set in rural Mexico, celebrating sexuality as a means of achieving spirituality; and Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004), about a middle-aged woman...
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