In the opening scene of the first film biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, the activist says people have always had a problem with her. "They had a problem with my disinterest ...

A birthday message for Alice Walker was written on the windows of the Georgia Writers Museum. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing—one of Alice Walker’s more than 40 books—is perhaps the most apropos ...

Legendary author, poet and activist Alice Walker joins us to discuss her newest book, “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way,” in which ...

Beauty in Truth, Pratibha Parmar’s documentary about the life and work of the author Alice Walker, is a deeply moving film that deserved the standing ovations at its premiere screenings this spring.

The front yard of Alice Walker's house in the Berkeley hills is a wonderland. Buddhist statues, yellow roses and trees lead to a virtual gateway to her front door: a spider web that's been intact so ...

“The Color Purple” author Alice Walker last week endorsed a book by a British conspiracy theorist frequently accused of anti-Semitism, and literary observers are speaking out on social media. Walker, ...

Walker's memoir of the personal dilemmas and controversy surrounding release of the film based on The Color Purple. (Jan.) In linking meditation to wandering, the distinguished and prolific Walker, ...

Portrait of American poet and author Alice Walker as she sits, with a pot (in the shape of an elephant) of flowers on per porch, San Francisco, California, 1989. Before there was a 1985 movie, a ...

Writer/activist Alice Walker (b. Feb. 9, 1944) made history as the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her seminal novel The Color Purple (1982), for which she won ...

Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. When Alice Walker was eight years old, she ...

As the revival of ‘The Color Purple’ the musical enters its second week of previews on Broadway this week, Alice Walker -- the lauded author who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning novel upon which it is ...