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The National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s fascinating and far-reaching conversations with acclaimed writers and thought leaders.
Spanning more than three decades, this collection of fascinating discussions between Alice Walker and renowned writers, leaders, and teachers, explores the changes that Walker has experienced in the world, as well as the change she herself has brought to it.
Compelling literary and cultural figures such as Gloria Steinem, Pema Chödrön, and Howard Zinn represent a different stage in Walker’s artistic and spiritual development. Yet, they also offer an unprecedented look at her career and political growth. Noted literary scholar Rudolph Byrd sets Walker’s work into context with an introductory essay, as well as with a comprehensive annotated bibliography of her writings.
“Read as separate pieces, these conversations offer vivid glimpses of Walker’s energetic personality. Taken together, they offer a sense of her marvelous engagement with her world.” —Kirkus Reviews
The National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s fascinating and far-reaching conversations with acclaimed writers and thought leaders.
Spanning more than three decades, this collection of fascinating discussions between Alice Walker and renowned writers, leaders, and teachers, explores the changes that Walker has experienced in the world, as well as the change she herself has brought to it.
Compelling literary and cultural figures such as Gloria Steinem, Pema Chödrön, and Howard Zinn represent a different stage in Walker’s artistic and spiritual development. Yet, they also offer an unprecedented look at her career and political growth. Noted literary scholar Rudolph Byrd sets Walker’s work into context with an introductory essay, as well as with a comprehensive annotated bibliography of her writings.
“Read as separate pieces, these conversations offer vivid glimpses of Walker’s energetic personality. Taken together, they offer a sense of her marvelous engagement with her world.” —Kirkus Reviews
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About the Author-
Alice Walker (b. 1944), one of the United States’ preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple, which also won the National Book Award. Her other novels include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. In her public life, Walker has worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.
Table of Contents-
Alice Walker: Interview with John O'Brien from Interviews With Black Writers (1973) [on her early writing career and inspirations] Alice Walker: Interview with Claudia Tate from Black Women Writers At Work (1983) [on being part of the emerging coterie of black women writers in the 1970s – with Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, etc.] Alice Walker: Moving Towards Coexistence," Interview with Ellen Bring from The Animal's Agenda (1988) [on her animal rights activism and its importance to her world view and writing] Alice Walker: Writing to Save My Life," Interview with Claudia Dreifus from The Progressive (1989) [on politics and fiction writing] Alice Walker's Appeal: An Interview with Paula Giddings from Essence (1992) Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen and Isabel Allende, Giving Birth, Finding Form: Where Our Books Come From," from Creative Conversations Series (1993) [on the feminist inspirations for her writing] Alice Walker with Jody Hoy, The Richness of Ordinary Stuff," (1994) [on her personal philosophy] Alice Walker: My Life As Myself," A Conversation with Tammy Simon from Sounds True Recordings (1995) Alice Walker: The World Is Made of Stories," A Conversation with Justine Toms and Michael Toms from New Dimensions Tapes (1996) Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss," Interview by Evelyn White from Ms. (1998) Alice Walker and Pema Chodron In Conversation: On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy" from Sounds True (1998) [on the importance of Buddhisim to her work and writing] Alice Walker: I know what the earth says," Interview with William R. Ferris from Southern Cultures (2004) [on being a black female writer from the South] Alice Walker and Margo Jefferson: A Conversation from LIVE FROM THE NYPL (2005) [on her success with the Color Purple, being a celebrity] Alice Walker: Outlaw, Renegade, Rebel, Pagan by Amy Goodman from Democracy Now (March 2006)[on her politics and activism] Alice Walker on Fidel Castro with George Galloway from The Fidel Castro Handbook (November 2006) [on why she supports Castro] Conversation with Alice Walker by Marrianne Schnall from feminist.com (December 2006) Conversation with Howard Zinn at City Lights Bookstore [date?] [on her Mississippi years, experiences with Zinn as a student, role of the civil rights movement in her work]
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