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ALICE
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Alice
Walker is an American novelist, short-story writer, poet,
essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. Alice
Walker's creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial
terrorism, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture,
particularly in the rural South. Her writing explores multidimensional
kinships among women, among men and women, among humans and animals,
and embraces the redemptive power of social, spiritual and political
revolution.
Welcome
to the Official Website for Alice Walker
Berkeley, California, February 2009 Announcing the launch of Alice
Walker's website, www.alicewalkersgarden.com
featuring one of the
greatest visionaries of our time. For over forty years, Alice Walker's
works have touched the hearts and minds of people throughout the world.
Alice's website is a garden of inspiration for long-time fans and
newcomers alike. This website not only chronicles the work of a woman
who has spent her life working towards uplifting the soul of humanity,
but signals the beginning of new works relevant to today's challenges,
calling us to go deeper with what is important, and what brings us joy.
The website title is inspired by her essay from 1974, "In Search of
Our Mother's Gardens," in which she explores the creativity of
women,
especially that of black women in the South. The essay includes
Alice's appreciation of her own mother's gift for gardening: "She
planted ambitious gardens...whatever she planted grew as if by magic..."
Alice Walker's Garden features her poetry and writings, photographs,
timeline of her work, a bookstore and a link to her NEW blog! Alice
will use her blog to publish new articles like "Anxiety Soup!" -
her
latest article created especially as medicine for this moment in our
history. You can also read Alice's other timely writings like the blog
posted there now regarding the election and Barack Obama.
People the world over look to Alice for her thoughts on current
events, and now she will make them available to us as her own journey
unfolds. She speaks to us from the welcome page of her website: "It
is
with infinite hope that I offer these thoughts from the internal road.
I want to share with you thoughts about other things, like gay
marriage, orphaned children, and the impact of war." Alice Walker is
one of the best-known and most respected authors in contemporary
writing today. Alice was the first African-American to win the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the first person to create and
teach a class dedicated to African-American women writers at Wellesley
College. Alice is a novelist, short story writer, poet, activist,
mother, daughter, gardener, and in her own words, "a happy woman."
Alice Walker lives in Northern California while continuing her
activism throughout the world. She creates radiant gardens wherever
she lives - and is often found outside in her garden picking greens
for dinner, flowers for the table, and gathering ideas for new
writings from clusters of zinnias.
Alice reminds us: "No person is your friend who demands your
silence,
or denies your right to grow." This is Alice Walker's first and only
site and blog, and she intends this new communication offering to be a
source of information and inspiration for "our right to grow."
Website designed by Shiloh Sophia McCloud of Palm of Her Hand http://www.palmofherhand.com
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