Alice Walker (disambiguation)

"Alice Walker" is composed of at least 3 distinct authors, divided by their works.

About the Author

Includes the name: Walker Alice

Author Division

Alice Walker (1)

The Color Purple (1982) 22,502 copies, 369 reviews
The Temple of My Familiar (1989) 2,640 copies, 27 reviews
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) 2,380 copies, 35 reviews
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) — Foreword, some editions — 2,159 copies, 80 reviews
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) 1,590 copies, 13 reviews
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction (1978) — Author, some editions — 1,581 copies, 4 reviews
Meridian (1976) 1,430 copies, 15 reviews
Mules and Men (1935) — Contributor, some editions — 1,265 copies, 11 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 1,010 copies, 7 reviews
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (1981) 947 copies, 11 reviews
Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense (1970) — Contributor, some editions — 891 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Contributor — 872 copies, 6 reviews
By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998) 839 copies, 9 reviews
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) 823 copies, 11 reviews
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) 795 copies, 11 reviews
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) 599 copies, 9 reviews
Zora Neale Hurston: The Complete Stories (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 567 copies, 2 reviews
Cane [Norton Critical Edition] (1988) — Contributor — 548 copies, 5 reviews
Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) — Contributor, some editions — 519 copies, 5 reviews
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (1996) 503 copies, 9 reviews
Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World (1987) — Contributor — 491 copies, 1 review
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contributor — 479 copies, 5 reviews
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Contributor — 454 copies, 1 review
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories, Revised & Updated Edition (1995) — Contributor — 442 copies, 7 reviews
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Contributor — 441 copies, 6 reviews
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Contributor — 403 copies, 2 reviews
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (1982) — Contributor — 399 copies, 2 reviews
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contributor — 394 copies, 7 reviews
The Color Purple [1985 film] (1985) — Novel — 388 copies, 7 reviews
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality (1989) — Contributor — 387 copies, 2 reviews
Literature: The Human Experience (2006) — Contributor — 367 copies
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Contributor — 365 copies, 2 reviews
Daughter of Earth (1929) — Foreword, some editions — 331 copies, 5 reviews
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Contributor — 305 copies, 1 review
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983) — Contributor — 302 copies
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1984) 299 copies, 7 reviews
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature {2nd edition} (2003) — Contributor, some editions — 282 copies, 2 reviews
The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970) — Contributor — 268 copies, 1 review
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995) — Contributor — 264 copies, 1 review
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contributor — 234 copies, 4 reviews
Revolutionary Petunias (1973) 231 copies, 1 review
Why War Is Never a Good Idea (2007) 222 copies, 28 reviews
We Are the Stories We Tell (1990) — Contributor — 204 copies, 1 review
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Contributor — 200 copies, 1 review
Black Women Writers at Work (1983) — Contributor — 193 copies, 2 reviews
Erotique Noire/Black Erotica (1992) — Contributor — 188 copies, 2 reviews
Once: Poems (1976) 171 copies, 2 reviews
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contributor — 164 copies, 1 review
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Contributor — 157 copies, 2 reviews
To Hell with Dying (1988) 147 copies, 4 reviews
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 146 copies, 1 review
The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir (2011) 145 copies, 6 reviews
Take Back the Night: Woman on Pornography (1980) — Contributor — 141 copies
Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (1998) — Contributor — 136 copies
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Contributor — 136 copies, 1 review
Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography (1977) — Foreword, some editions — 132 copies, 2 reviews
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (2010) 131 copies, 3 reviews
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998) — Contributor — 129 copies, 2 reviews
Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers (1995) — Contributor — 129 copies
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (2021) — Contributor — 127 copies
Langston Hughes: American Poet (1974) 125 copies, 15 reviews
No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973) — Contributor — 124 copies
Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (1988) — Contributor — 124 copies
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contributor — 124 copies
The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories (1996) — Contributor — 122 copies
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart (2018) 121 copies, 5 reviews
Poems from the Women's Movement (2009) — Contributor — 117 copies, 2 reviews
Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (2005) — Foreword — 116 copies, 2 reviews
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (2012) — Foreword, some editions — 115 copies, 4 reviews
A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer (2007) — Contributor — 112 copies, 1 review
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Contributor — 110 copies
American Short Stories [Pearson Longman] (1976) — Contributor, some editions — 106 copies
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (2001) — Contributor — 100 copies, 1 review
Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race (1995) — Contributor — 99 copies
Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (2001) — Contributor — 98 copies, 2 reviews
Finding the Green Stone (1991) 93 copies, 3 reviews
Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation (1984) — Contributor — 88 copies
Everyday Use (1973) 87 copies, 2 reviews
Close Company: Stories of Mothers and Daughters (1987) — Contributor — 87 copies, 2 reviews
Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women (1994) — Contributor — 87 copies
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Contributor — 85 copies, 1 review
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (2021) — Contributor — 84 copies, 1 review
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought (2021) — Contributor — 76 copies
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contributor — 72 copies, 1 review
Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers (1990) — Contributor — 69 copies
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Contributor — 66 copies, 1 review
Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry (1997) — Contributor — 63 copies
Without a Guide: Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures (1994) — Contributor — 60 copies
The Complete Stories (1994) 57 copies, 1 review
I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems For Young Feminists (1992) — Contributor — 57 copies, 2 reviews
The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (1993) — Contributor — 55 copies, 2 reviews
Revenge: Short Stories by Women Writers (1990) — Contributor — 54 copies
Alice Walker Banned (1996) 54 copies
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (1994) — Contributor — 49 copies
Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America (2003) — Contributor — 46 copies
Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening (2004) — Contributor — 39 copies, 1 review
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contributor — 33 copies
Prize Stories 1986: The O. Henry Awards (1986) — Contributor — 31 copies
The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, and Journals (1996) — Introduction, some editions — 30 copies
Go Girl! The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997) — Contributor — 26 copies
The Color Purple [2023 film] (2023) — Original novel — 26 copies, 1 review
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women (1983) — Contributor — 25 copies
Wild Women (1997) — Contributor — 24 copies, 1 review
Almost Touching the Skies: Women's Coming of Age Stories (2000) — Contributor — 23 copies
The Other Woman: Stories of Two Women and a Man (1984) — Contributor — 19 copies, 2 reviews
Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry (1999) — Contributor — 19 copies
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Contributor — 18 copies
The Color Purple: Original 2005 Broadway Cast Recording (2005) — Original novel — 15 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1974 (1974) — Contributor — 14 copies
Tales and Stories for Black Folks (1971) — Contributor — 13 copies
Of Leaf and Flower: Stories and Poems for Gardeners (2001) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Color Purple: Original 2015 Broadway Cast Recording (2015) — Original novel — 12 copies
Alice Walker Poetry (1985) 11 copies
Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women's Poetry (1998) — Contributor — 10 copies
America's Original Sin: A Study Guide on White Racism (1994) — Contributor — 9 copies
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family (2002) — Contributor — 8 copies
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contributor — 8 copies
Gardening the Soul (2000) 7 copies, 1 review
Moeders en dochters (1988) 6 copies
My Life As My Self (1995) 6 copies
Other Nations: Animals in Modern Literature (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies
El dulce abismo (Spanish Edition) (2004) 4 copies, 1 review
Följeslagaren (1990) 3 copies
Zugvögel (2002) 2 copies
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies
The Bitter Southerner Magazine, Issue No. 2 (2021) — Contributor — 1 copy
Am I Blue 1 copy
Alice Walker 1 copy
Looking for Zora (1975) 1 copy
The River Reader: Introduction to Literature (2010) — Contributor — 1 copy

Common Knowledge

Disambiguation notice
1. Walker, Alice Malsenior (1944- ): Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, novelist and activist
2. Walker, Alice (1900- ): English scholar of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature
3. Walker, Alice ( - ):