Alice Walker: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Donna Haisty Winchell, Alice Walker (1992); Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K.A. Appiah (eds.), Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (1993).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - Alice Walker. Oct 09, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - 'The Color Purple' is about the bonding of women. Jun 06, 2026
Anniversary information added. Feb 05, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC Radio National - Weekend Arts - The life and times of Alice Walker. Nov 19, 2025
Add new Web site: CNN US - Alice Walker talks race, women and power. Oct 07, 2025
Add new Web site: CBS News - Award-winning author, activist Alice Walker talks about her book 'Sweet People are Everywhere'. Aug 15, 2025
Add new Web site: Georgia Writers Museum - Alice Walker. Jul 05, 2025
Tagging updated. Mar 18, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 19, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Meridian - Talking to Alice Walker. Feb 01, 2025
Add new Web site: All American Entertainment Speakers - Alice Walker. Aug 13, 2024
Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Alice Walker. May 13, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Jan 24, 2024
Revised and updated. Jan 24, 2024
Media added. Dec 04, 2023
Add new Web site: Mississippi Writers and Musicians - Alice Walker. Aug 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Alice Walker (1944 - ). Jun 23, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Site of Alice Walker. May 12, 2023
Links added. Jan 26, 2023
Added the book Gathering Blossoms Under Fire and noted controversies over some of her statements and works. May 03, 2022
Added the book Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart. Sep 13, 2019
Added her 2011 memoir and the documentary Alice Walker: Truth in Beauty. Aug 31, 2018
Add new Web site: Georgia Writers Hall of Fame - University of Georgia - Biography of Alice Walker. Jul 20, 2014
Add new Web site: Black Past - Alice M.Walker. May 20, 2014
Add new Web site: The University of New York - Biography of Alice Walker. Jun 21, 2013
Add new Web site: Luminarium - Biography of Alice Walker. Jun 21, 2013
Noted publication of new essay collection. Apr 18, 2013
Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Arts and Culture - Biography of Alice Walker. Jun 08, 2011
Article revised and updated. Mar 23, 2009
Added new Web site: University of Groningen - Revolution to Reconstruction - Biography of Alice Walker. May 24, 2007
Article revised. Feb 16, 2000
Article added to new online database. Jan 12, 2000
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