Alice Walker PA

by White,Evelyn C.

• ISBN13: 9780393328264
• ISBN10: 0393328260
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

"The rich, complex story White tells...is never less than fascinating."--New York Times Book Review Alice Walker's life is remarkable not only because she was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (the book that won her that award, The Color Purple, has been translated into nearly thirty languages and made into an Academy Award-nominated film), but also because these accomplishments are merely highlights of a luminous and varied career made from inauspicious beginnings in rural Georgia. Drawing on extensive interviews and exhaustive research, Evelyn C. White brings this life to light. 16 pages of illustrations.

Table of Contents

Prologue: In Service	xiii
Part One / KUDZU
Georgia, the Whole Day Through	3	(6)
Babies and Stumps	9	(7)
Roots	16	(7)
``Shift for Self''	23	(6)
Booker T.	29	(4)
``I Been Cryin' . . .''	33	(8)
Knights in Shining Armor	41	(8)
A Long Walk	49	(7)
Order My Steps	56	(10)
Nobody in Atlanta	66	(12)
Forbidden Things	78	(7)
Fit for Myself to Know	85	(14)
Part Two / TO HAVE AND TO HOLD
Make Yourself Useful	99	(9)
Reclaimed	108	(13)
New York	121	(11)
Live or Die	132	(7)
In a Biblical Way	139	(8)
Tulips	147	(8)
Beyond Daily Bread	155	(5)
That Alice?	160	(10)
Nude	170	(10)
Watered with Blood	180	(5)
``Conformity is not Community''	185	(14)
The Children Grow in Love	199	(7)
A Kindred Lover of Beauty	206	(9)
A Kiss on Both Sides	215	(10)
Love the Questions	225	(14)
Good Night, Willie Lee	239	(6)
We Are a People	245	(15)
Changes	260	(7)
How Rare We Were	267	(9)
We Were a Part of It	276	(9)
Part Three / LIFE IS THE AWARD
Meridian	285	(9)
Refuge	294	(7)
Correct Relationship	301	(7)
Country People	308	(5)
An Ugly One at That	313	(13)
A Room to Move Into	326	(8)
Radically Brilliant	334	(6)
At a Double Remove	340	(6)
God Love All Them Feelings	346	(6)
The Balance Had Begun to Tilt	352	(6)
Some of Our Work	358	(4)
Through It All	362	(8)
I Try to Make Sense	370	(13)
The Glimpse of Life beyond the Words	383	(9)
Something to Lift Spirits	392	(8)
Guide and Protect	400	(16)
More Than Many Hoped	416	(7)
She Liked Everything She Saw	423	(5)
The World Is Held Together	428	(10)
They Saw the Airplane Coming	438	(17)
Epilogue: It's All Love	455	(10)
Chronology	465	(3)
Alice Walker Publications List	468	(2)
Wild Trees Press Publications List	470	(1)
Acknowledgments	471	(4)
Source Notes	475	(39)
Selected Bibliography	514	(6)
Permissions	520	(2)
Photo Credits	522	(3)
Index	525