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 ...

Actor Danny Glover speaks about Alice Walker's work in the context of activism. Howard Zinn on Alice Walker, His Former Student Howard Zinn compares his former student, Alice Walker, to Zora Neale ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

Alice Walker's "The Color Purple," which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1983, is one of the most popular literary novels of recent times. Walker, according to the new ...

Daniel Gordis—among others—has accused Alice Walker of Nazi-grade anti-Semitism for refusing to translate her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple, through an Israeli publisher. This doesn’t ...

Jewish institutions like the 92nd Street Y are increasingly coming under harsh pressure—and, sometimes, being protested—for inviting forceful critics of Israel to speak. Walker, best known for her ...

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 ...