Alice Walker
CA, US
Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart
Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple , is internationally honored as an essential writer of our time. She is the author of seven novels, including Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy and By the Light of My Father's Smile; three collections of short stories: In Love & Trouble, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, and The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart. Ms. Walker's books have been critically appreciated and have also been best sellers. The Color Purple was on The New York Times Bestseller List for over a year. The Color Purple was also made into an internationally-popular film by Steven Spielberg. To date, she has published twenty-three volumes. In all, her books have sold over ten million copies and have been translated into over two dozen languages. Her many honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rosenthal Award for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Lillian Smith Award, and the Radcliffe Medal. She has been offered many more honorary degrees than she has had energy to accept. Ms. Walker's teaching experience includes guest lectureships and appointments at Wellesley College , the University of Massachusetts , Brown, Sarah Lawrence College , and Radcliffe/Harvard. She has been Fannie Hurst Professor at Brandeis University and Distinguished Writer in African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Associate Professor of English at Yale. She was also for many years a contributing and fiction editor at Ms. Magazine . An activist and social visionary, Ms. Walker has been a participant in most of the major movements for planetary change: among them, the Human and Civil Rights movement in the South, the Hands Off Cuba Movement, the Women's Movement, The native American and Indigenous Rights Movement, Free South Africa Movement, Environmental and Animal Rights Movement, and the Peace Movement. Her "advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed" has, in the words of her biographer, Evelyn C. White, "spanned the globe."
Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple , is internationally honored as an essential writer of our time. She is the author of seven novels, including Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy and By the Light of My Father's Smile; three collections of short stories: In Love & Trouble, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, and The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart. Ms. Walker's books have been critically appreciated and have also been best sellers. The Color Purple was on The New York Times Bestseller List for over a year. The Color Purple was also made into an internationally-popular film by Steven Spielberg. To date, she has published twenty-three volumes. In all, her books have sold over ten million copies and have been translated into over two dozen languages. Her many honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rosenthal Award for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Lillian Smith Award, and the Radcliffe Medal. She has been offered many more honorary degrees than she has had energy to accept. Ms. Walker's teaching experience includes guest lectureships and appointments at Wellesley College , the University of Massachusetts , Brown, Sarah Lawrence College , and Radcliffe/Harvard. She has been Fannie Hurst Professor at Brandeis University and Distinguished Writer in African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Associate Professor of English at Yale. She was also for many years a contributing and fiction editor at Ms. Magazine . An activist and social visionary, Ms. Walker has been a participant in most of the major movements for planetary change: among them, the Human and Civil Rights movement in the South, the Hands Off Cuba Movement, the Women's Movement, The native American and Indigenous Rights Movement, Free South Africa Movement, Environmental and Animal Rights Movement, and the Peace Movement. Her "advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed" has, in the words of her biographer, Evelyn C. White, "spanned the globe."
2010