Alice Walker

This is Walker's page at Voices From the Gaps. There, you'll find a photo, some excerpts, a biography, two bibliographies, and some links. It's a great place to start your online research.

Looking for more Alice Walker links? This page has a great collection, and some biographical material, too.

In an interview with the Daily Beacon of the University of Tennessee, Walker shares some personal moments about her family and growing up.

Here is a film review of The Color Purple. Have you seen the film? Have you read the book? What can you learn just from reading a film review? What kinds of questions would make it necessary to consult the book?

If you'd like to put Walker's work into a historical context, you will want to know something about the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. To get you started here's a good general page about the Civil Rights Movement from The Encyclopedia Britannica.

An interesting way to see the scope of Walker's work is to browse through the list of her citations at the Library of Congress. What did you find there that you didn't know before your visit?

Search for a New York Times book review of one of Walker's works here. What book did you choose and what did the reviewer think of it? How can you tell? (Free registration required.)

This is a letter Walker sent to President Clinton. In it she declines an invitation to the White House and criticizes the former President's policies regarding Cuba. How accurate do you think this text is? How can you tell?

Interested in how Walker and Steven Spielberg got along when they worked together? Here is an interview with Walker at Salon about the filming of The Color Purple.

Speaking of interactions with other artists, here's an article by Walker about Flannery O'Connor. Can you make any links between the works of these two women? Thematically? Regionally?