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Alice Walker
Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites
| SCOPE: Alice Walker is a black novelist and poet whose works embody the notion of the black experience in America. She has been both a lecturer and reader of her own poetry at various notable colleges including Wellesley, Berkeley, and Brandeis. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the American Book Award, 1983, the Pulitzer Prize, 1983, and the National Book Critics Circle Award Nomination in 1982 all for her highly praised novel The Color Purple. Her recent novels have reached the New York Times Bestseller List.
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CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of Alice Walkers works are listed in the Baddour
Library's on-line catalog under Walker, Alice. And under individual titles, i.e. The Temple of My Familiar.
Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
Bloom, Harold, ed. Alice Walker. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.
Ferrell, William K. Literature and Film as Modern Mythology. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.
Books written by and about Alice Walker have the call number (s) PS 3573.A425
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic.
REF PS 153.N5 W47 1989 Black American Women Novelists
REF PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction Vol. 7
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 6 American Novelists Since World War II; Vol. 33 Afro-American Fiction Writers after 1955
REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a
list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
WEB
SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
Literary Resources on the Net
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
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Updated
08/16/2007
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