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Critical companion to Alice Walker : a literary reference to her life and work / Carmen Gillespie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gillespie, Carmen.
- Series:
- Facts on File library of American literature.
- Facts on File library of American literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walker, Alice, 1944---Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Walker, Alice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 452 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Facts On File, Inc., c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Alice Walker is one of the few living writers whose work regularly appears in the high school curriculum. While she is known primarily for her best-selling novel and masterpiece The Color Purple, many of her other novels, essays, and poems are favorites of both students and teachers alike. In 1983 she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Critical Companion to Alice Walker is a one-stop resource for anyone interested in this prolific author's life, works, and achievements.
- Contents:
- Biography
- Works A-Z
- Related people, places, and topics
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438134888
- 1438134886
- OCLC:
- 742513493
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