爱丽丝·沃克(英语:Alice Walker,1944年2月9日-),是一位美国作家和社会活动家,曾获普利兹小说奖、美国国家图书奖[1][2][3],代表作为《紫色姐妹花》,史蒂芬·史匹柏曾将其改编为同名电影。
早期生活
爱丽丝·沃克出生于乔治亚州的一个小镇,有兄弟姊妹八人,她最小。母亲为帮佣,从小便必须打理家务。八岁时因哥哥不慎导致右眼失明。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
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克逊,成为“密西西比第一对合法结婚的跨种族夫妇”。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。
90年代中期,沃克与女创作歌手特蕾西·查普曼开始了一段恋情。
作品
小说和短篇故事集
- 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 HouseISBN 9781588363961
诗集
- 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
非小说类书籍
- 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)