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second book of short stories, You can’t Keep a Good Woman Down. Her first collection of short
stories is titled as In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women. Along with it, she also
published her second volume of poetry, Revolutionary Petunias and other poems.
Walker’s writing began to flourish, and in 1982, she completed The Color Purple for
which she received Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. The novel The Color Purple is
an epistolary novel about the life of a poor black woman named Celie. Critics again accused her
of portraying black men too harshly. The same year, her book, In search of our Mother’s Garden
was published, containing essays on her ‘womanist ideology’. The Color Purple was made into a
motion picture, produced by Quincy Jones and directed by Steven Spielberg the director of
“Jurassic Park”. In 1984, Walker published her third volume of Poetry: Horses make a
Landscape Look More Beautiful. In 1988 her second book of essays Living by the Word was
published and in 1989 she published her epic novel The Temple of My Familiar. Her volume of
poetry, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, as well as her children’s story
Finding the Green Stone, were published in 1991. Alice fifth novel Possessing the Secret of Joy,
in 1992, recorded the psychic trauma of one woman’s life after forced genital mutilation. Her
interest in this subject led her to produce a documentary about the defacement of woman’s
bodies. She wrote about her experiences with the documentary and her feelings towards this
subject in Warrior Marks. In 1996, she published The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult,
which describes through essays and journal entries, the loss of her mother, the break-up for her
thirteen year relationship with Robert Allen, her struggle with cyme disease and depression, the
awakening to bi-sexuality, and notes of remembrance on the making of the movie, The Color
Purple. It also deals with her budding realization that she would become politically achieve in
her writings, particularly in non-fiction. The next year Anything We Done can be Saved: A
Writer’s Activism was released; it contained many essays inspired by her political activism. This
included activities in the civil right movement, the anti-nuclear movement the environment
movement, the women’s movement, and the movement to protect indigenous people.
Walker’s writings portray the struggle of black people throughout history, and are praised
for their insightful and riveting portraits of black life, in particular the experiences of black
women in a sexist and racist society. And also her writings focus on the struggles of African
Americans particularly women, and they witness against societies that are racist, sexist, and
violent. Then it focuses on the role of women of color in culture and history. She is a respected