Walker's memoir of the personal dilemmas and controversy surrounding release of the film based on The Color Purple. (Jan.) In linking meditation to wandering, the distinguished and prolific Walker, ...

“The Color Purple” author Alice Walker last week endorsed a book by a British conspiracy theorist frequently accused of anti-Semitism, and literary observers are speaking out on social media. Walker, ...

In the opening scene of the first film biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, the activist says people have always had a problem with her. "They had a problem with my disinterest ...

GATHERING BLOSSOMS UNDER FIRE: The Journals of Alice Walker 1965-2000. Edited by Valerie Boyd. Simon & Schuster. 560 pages. $32.50. Over the course of her prolific and decades-long career, Alice ...

The New York Times Book Review is taking heat over an interview in Sunday’s issue in which “The Color Purple” author Alice Walker expressed her admiration for a book by the British conspiracy theorist ...

Portrait of American poet and author Alice Walker as she sits, with a pot (in the shape of an elephant) of flowers on per porch, San Francisco, California, 1989. Before there was a 1985 movie, a ...

ATLANTA -- Why won't Alice Walker allow commenting on her blog? Commenters generally have a bad attitude, she said. Then there's the spelling. Though she considers social media a "surveillance" tool, ...

Is author Alice Walker a Jew-hater? Here is what we know. Exhibit A: This past Sunday, in the pages of the New York Times Book Review, Ms. Walker endorsed “And The Truth Shall Set You Free,” by David ...

The Bay Area has had many lives. The Oakland novelist Leila Mottley shares books that paint a picture of the city that lives and breathes today. By Leila Mottley The musical adaptation of the Pulitzer ...