Alice Walker

Alice Walker is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and biographer. Her published work includes two collections of short stories, In Love and Trouble and You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down; four volumes of poetry, Once, Revolutionary Petunias, Goodnight Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning, and Horses Make Landscapes Look More Beautiful; two collections of essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens and Living by the Word; two children's books, a biography of Langston Hughes, and To Hell with Dying; and five novels, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for fiction, The Temple of My Familiar, which was published by Harcourt Brace in 1989, and Possessing the Secret of Joy, which spent fifteen weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list in 1992. The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult was published in January 1996.