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Also Known As	Alice Malsenior Walker
Born	February 9, 1944 (age 82) • Georgia
Awards And Honors	O. Henry Award (1986) • National Book Award (1983) • Pulitzer Prize (1983)
Notable Works	“A Poem Traveled Down My Arm” • “Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth” • “By the Light of My Father’s Smile” • “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire” • “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing” • “Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, Her” • “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” • “Meridian” • “Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart” • “Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems” • “Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon” • “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” • “The Chicken Chronicles” • “The Color Purple” • “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way” • “The Temple of My Familiar” • “The Third Life of Grange Copeland” • “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart” • “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”
Movement / Style	Black Arts movement