爱丽丝·沃克（英语：Alice Walker，1944年2月9日—），美国作家和社会活动家，曾获普利策小说奖、美国国家图书奖[1][2][3]，代表作为《紫色姐妹花》，斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格曾将其改编为同名电影。
早期生活
爱丽丝·沃克出生于佐治亚州的一个小镇[4]，有兄弟姊妹八人，她最小。母亲为帮佣[5]，从小便必须打理家务[6]。八岁时因哥哥不慎导致右眼失明[7]。曾任教于加州大学，致力介绍非洲作家，并长期关注民权、妇女运动。
个人生活
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1965年，沃克与犹太民权律师Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal相遇。他们1967年3月17日在纽约市结婚。那年晚些时候夫妇搬迁到密西西比州杰森，成为“密西西比第一对合法结婚的跨种族夫妇”。[8][9]他们受到白人的骚扰和威胁，包括三K党。他们夫妇1969年生了一个女儿Rebecca。沃克和她的丈夫于1976年离婚。[10]
作品
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
- In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
- Meridian (1976)
- 《紫色姐妹花》 (1982)
- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
- To Hell With Dying (1988)
- The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
- Finding the Green Stone (1991)
- Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
- The Complete Stories (1994)
- By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
- The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
- Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) Random House ISBN 9781588363961
- Once (1968)
- Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973)
- Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
- Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
- A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
- Collected Poems (2005)
- Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
- Living by the Word (1988)
- Warrior Marks (1993)
- The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
- Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
- Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
- Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
- Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
- We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
- Overcoming Speechlessness (2010)
- Chicken Chronicles, A Memoir (2011)
延伸阅读
- 爱丽丝·沃克著，施寄青译：《紫色姐妹花》（台北：大地出版社，1986）
- White, Evelyn C. Alice Walker: A Life. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-393-32826-4.
- Walker, Alice; Parmar, Pratibha. Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women. Diane Books Publishing Company. 1993. ISBN 978-0-7881-5581-9.
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