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Waley, Allison A Half of Two Lives McGraw-Hill Book Company 1983 Hard Cover. Small bookstore stamp on the front endpage. Publisher's flaw to the front cover. The dustjacket has some rubbing and taped repairs.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or489116. ISBN #0070678073 / 9780070678071. (keywords: Literary Biography) (filed under: Literary Biography ) *

Alice Walker's life is remarkable not only because she was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (the book that won her that award, The Color Purple , has been translated into nearly thirty languages and made into an Academy Award–nominated film), but also because these accomplishments are merely highlights of a luminous and varied career made from inauspicious beginnings in rural Georgia. Drawing on extensive interviews and exhaustive research, Evelyn C. White brings this life...

Alice Walker's Life is remarkable not only because she was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, but because she has had a varied career made from inauspicious beginnings in rural Georgia. Drawing on extensive interviews and exhaustive research, Evelyn C. White brings this life to light. Evelyn White is also on the Ms. advisory board.

Pages: 112, Library Binding, Compass Point Books

"In an outstanding segment of the Creative Conversations series, three world-renowned women authors discuss their lives, books, and the diverse forces that have spawned their many literary productions. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel The Color Purple ; Isabel Allende, South American journalist and fiction writer; and Jean Shinoda Bolen, psychiatrist and professor, mesh their remarks beautifully in a moving, fluid, and colorful dialog (these women are funny ). They tell how pain...

ISBN13: 9780156028363. ISBN10: 0156028360. by Alice Walker and Andre Bernard. Published by Harcourt Trade Publishers. Edition: 88

What were Alice Walker’s motivations in writing "Everyday Use"? In this program, the author discusses her short story with her official biographer, Evelyn C. White. Over the course of the interview, Walker talks about the autobiographical aspects of the story, the significance of quilting to African-American women, the perception of class differences, and the important life lessons she wished to explore. (23 minutes)

Generations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today--governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television's cathode ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings. In this book, David Bodanis writes the "biography" of one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history--that the realms of energy and matter are inescapably...

A leading voice among American writers, Alice Walker has published books of influential poetry, novels, short stories, essays, and criticism. In this program, Ms. Walker talks with Bill Moyers about a range of subjects, including The Color Purple, whose themes are as relevant today as they were when she wrote the book in 1982; the way in which her life experiences and ancestry are reflected in her writing; and her latest collection of poems, Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. (57 minutes)

Take a front-row seat as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and American-born Buddhist nun Pema Chdrn reflect on anger, joy, fear, and the union of spirituality and social activism. Hear their personal experiences of the "giving and taking" meditation and how it has helped heal their lives. Let their combined wisdom illuminate the realm, available to us all, where the barriers between self and others dissolve. Recorded live at San Franciscos Palace of Fine Arts, Pema Chdrn and Alice Walker...

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997). The uncorrected proof copy of this biography of Percy, by a well-known Jesuit scholar of Southern literature. Fine in wrappers. [#004809] $25

Presents data demonstrating higher levels of black educational attainment among females. Argues (based on an assessment of possible alternative explanations drawn from the literature) that black females outperform black males on measures of educational achievement because of an urban black culture-environment which draws black males irrevocably towards a "cult of violence" and away from the values of academic environment. Also cites ways in which the in-group (Black) and out-group (White) of black...

This three-page undergraduate paper examines the art of biography and compares and contrasts the views of James Strassmaier, Jean Edward Smith, and Catherine N. Parke. The author notes that biographies of great figures from history have displayed a variety of writing styles, interpretive approaches, and methods of research, as well as positive and negative portrayals of the lives being discussed. Biography has become a more judicious and unbiased field in modern times, for most modern biographers...

1840-1875 English painter and illustrator. He acquired his training in drawing and painting through study in the British Museum (where he copied heavily from the Antique), a short period spent in an architect's office, life classes at Leigh's school, a studentship at the Royal Academy and three years' employment as a draughtsman on wood with the commercial engraver Josiah Wood Whymper (1813-1903).

A revealing biography of the elder George Bush, from one of the most respected political writers of our time No one is more qualified to give a fully rounded, objective portrait of our forty-first president than Tom Wicker. A political correspondent for The New York Times for more than thirty years, Wicker was a first-hand witness to and reporter of George H. W. Bush's political rise and presidential reign. In George Herbert Walker Bush, Wicker provides a richly drawn and succinct overview of Bush...

His work is shown regularly in France, where he now lives, Italy, Japan and the United States. He is known for his lyrical watercolors. His style and subject matter is very reminiscent of classic Asian ink painting and incorporates spontaneity and gesture.