Novelist, poet, and essayist
Alice Walker
Alice Walker writes about Black women’s lives, creative inheritance, and the labor of making a life. The Color Purple received both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
On the shelves
Books in the collection
Essays
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Alice Walker
Walker locates artistic inheritance in the everyday work and imagination of Black women.
Fiction
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Celie’s letters trace a life altered by sisterhood, creativity, and independence.