Teacher

Alice Walkerarticles

Below are the best articles we could find featuring alice walker.

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, feminist, womanist, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she wrote the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Alice Walker
FindCenter Video Image

‘This Is the Time for Poetry’: A Conversation with Alice Walker

The Pulitzer-winning author discusses the role of literature in moments of upheaval, the importance of women’s rights, and more.

article
Abdul Ali
2012
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Alice Walker: By the Book

The author, most recently, of the poetry collection “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” feels a duty to read about countries devastated by war: “The suffering, usually for the most vulnerable, never ends.”

article
Alice Walker
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Alice Walker Defends George Washington Murals

“Why try to hide the reality of our history?” she said of the objectionable images that confronted San Francisco students every day.

article
Carol Pogash
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Alice Walker: “I Feel Dedicated to the Whole of Humanity”

I wanted to have a room of my own. It would be decades before I read Virginia Woolf and had her beautiful rendition of that thought, but I knew that was what I needed. —Alice Walker

article
Alex Clark, Alice Walker
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Alice Walker: Writing What’s Right

The author of The Color Purple (and one of America’s most censured writers) tells Megan Labrise about finding wisdom in the songs of ancestors, why her acclaimed novel won’t be translated into Hebrew, and approaching writing in a priestly state of mind.

article
Megan Labrise
2012
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Good Medicine for This World

Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön and novelist Alice Walker on how tonglen meditation practice opens our heart, expands our vision, and plants the seeds of love in our lives.

article
Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker
1999
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

A Conversation with Alice Walker

The bestselling author discusses her role as a global citizen and her connection with nature, history, and activism

article
American Libraries
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Loader Image

EXPLORE RELATED TOPICS

EXPLORE RELATED TEACHERS

UP NEXT

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Photo Credit: Mark Sagliocco / Stringer / Getty Images Entertainment / Getty Images