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ALICE WALKER (1944- )
Walker brings her travel experience in Africa and memories of the American civil-rights movement to an examination of the experience of African Americans, mainly in the South, and of Africans. Among her works of fiction are the novels Meridian (1976), The Color Purple (1982; Pulitzer), The Temple of My Familiar (1989), and By the Light of My Father's Smile (1994), and the short-story collection You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (1981).


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