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Featured Author: Alice Walker

With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times

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In This Feature 

 Reviews of Alice Walker's Earlier Books

 Articles About and By Alice Walker

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 Francine Prose Reviews 'By the Light of My Father's

Smile' (October 4, 1998)
 Richard Bernstein Reviews 'By the Light of My Father's
Smile' (October 7, 1998)
 First Chapter: 'By the Light of My Father's Smile'

Audio

 Alice Walker, reads from 'By the Light of My Father's Smile' at

the 92nd Street Y, October 13, 1998

AUDIO SPECIAL:
On Tuesday, October 13, The New York Times and the 92nd
Street Y presented a live broadcast of Alice Walker reading from
her new novel, "By the Light of My Father's Smile."

 Introduction by Karl Kirchwey (4 mins.)

 Introduction by Alexis De Veaux (7 mins.)
 A Chant (4 mins.) Get on the 92nd Street
Y's Mailing List. See
 Alice Walker Reads From 'By the Light of a Schedule of Readings at
My Father's Smile' (40 mins.) the Unterberg Poetry
Center
 Alice Walker Answers Questions From the
Audience (19 min.)

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REVIEWS OF ALICE WALKER'S EARLIER BOOKS:

 'Meridian,' reviewed by Marge Piercy (1976)

". . . a fine, taut novel that accomplishes a remarkable amount."
 'You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down,' reviewed by Katha
Pollitt (1981)
"As a storyteller she is impassioned, sprawling, emotional, lushly evocative, steeped in
place, in memory, in the compelling power of narrative itself. A lavishly gifted writer, in
other words -- but not of this sort of book."
 'The Color Purple' (1982)
". . . convincing because of the authenticity of its folk voice. . . . a poignant tale of
women's struggle for equality and independence . . ."
 'Living by the Word' (1988)
". . . like an inkblot in a test -- what you see in [the book] will depend heavily on who you
are. . . . Walker being the gifted writer she is, there's nothing here that doesn't offer some
pleasure in the reading."
 'To Hell With Dying,' a book for young readers (1988)
". . . the book's message about the healing power of love is far too subtle for most young
readers to understand, and the first-person narrative, written from an adult's perspective,
will puzzle them."
 'The Temple of My Familiar,' reviewed by J. M. Coetzee (1989)
". . . a mixture of mythic fantasy, revisionary history, exemplary biography and sermon.
It is short on narrative tension, long on inspirational message."
 'Possessing the Secret of Joy' (1992)
". . . a literary enterprise whose ancestry runs closer to the Greek chorus and the medieval
miracle play than to the modern novel. . . . the book's power resides in those moments
when polemic intention and mythopoeic voice are in balance."
 'The Same River Twice' (1996)
"Reading the book is like sifting through a drawer, but there are some surprises . . ."
 'Anything We Love Can Be Saved' (1997)
"The consistency of Ms. Walker's focus is what unifies the 33 speeches, letters and
previously published pieces collected in 'Anything We Love Can Be Saved.'"
 ARTICLES ABOUT AND BY ALICE WALKER:

 Staying Home in Mississippi, by Alice Walker (August 26, 1973)

Walker recalls her experiences at the 1963 civil rights march on Washington.
 My Father's Country Is the Poor, by Alice Walker (March 21, 1977)
A man in Cuba reminds Walker of her father and causes her to reflect on the different
fates of these two men whose lives were both defined by poverty.
 Alice Walker Recalls the Civil Rights Battle  (April 16, 1983)
After winning the American Book Award for "The Color Purple," Walker reflected on
life in the South in the pre-civil rights era.
 Novelist Alice Walker Telling the Black Woman's Story  (January 8,
1984)
The author of this profile of Alice Walker was attracted to her books because they
conveyed "a sense of someone writing not simply to be writing, but because she wanted
to make people see things."
 A Premiere Down Home for 'The Color Purple' (January 18, 1986)
Alice Walker returned to her childhood home of Putnam County Georgia for a premiere
of "The Color Purple" in a movie theater that was segregated during her youth.
 Remembering Mr. Sweet, by Alice Walker (May 8, 1988)
In this essay adapted from her collection, "Living by the Word: Selected Writings 1973-
1987," Alice Walker describes the origins of her short story "To Hell With Dying," which
was reissued, with illustrations, as a children's book.

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