早期生活

爱丽丝·沃克出生于佐治亚州的一个小镇，有兄弟姊妹八人，她最小。母亲为帮佣，从必须打理家务。八岁时因哥哥不慎导致右眼失明。曾任教于加州大学，致力介绍非洲作家，并长期关注民权、妇女运动。

个人生活

1965年，沃克与犹太民权律师Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal相遇。他们1967年3月17日在纽约市结婚。那年晚些时候夫妇搬迁到密西西比州杰克逊，成为“密西西比第一对合法结婚的跨种族夫妇”。他们受到白人的骚扰和威胁，包括三K党。他们夫妇1969年生了一个女儿Rebecca。沃克和她的丈夫于1976年离婚。

90年代中期，沃克与女创作歌手特蕾西·查普曼开始了一段恋情。 

作品

小说和短篇故事集

The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)

Meridian (1976)

《紫花》 (1982)

You Can"t Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)

To Hell With Dying (1988)

The Temple of My Familiar (1989)

Finding the Green Stone (1991)

Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)

The Complete Stories (1994)

By The Light of My Father"s Smile (1998)

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) Random House ISBN 9781588363961

诗集

Once (1968)

Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973)

Good Night, Willie Lee, I"ll See You in the Morning (1979)

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)

Collected Poems (2005)

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

非小说类书籍

In Search of Our Mothers" Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)

Living by the Word (1988)

Warrior Marks (1993)

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)

Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer"s Activism (1997)

Go Girl!: The Black Woman"s Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)

Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)

Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)

Overcoming Speechlessness (2010)

Chicken Chronicles, A Memoir (2011)

延伸阅读

 White, Evelyn C. Alice Walker: A Life. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-393-32826-4.

Walker, Alice; Parmar, Pratibha. Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women. Diane Books Publishing Company. 1993. ISBN 978-0-7881-5581-9. 

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