愛麗絲·華克(,),美國作家和社会活动家,曾獲普立茲小說獎、美國國家圖書獎,代表作為《紫色姐妹花》,史蒂芬·史匹柏曾將其改編為同名電影。
早期生活
愛麗絲·華克出生於喬治亞州的一個小鎮,有兄弟姊妹八人,她最小。母親為幫傭,從小便必須打理家務。八歲時因哥哥不慎導致右眼失明。曾任教於加州大學,致力介紹非洲作家,並長期關注民權、婦女運動。
个人生活
1965年,沃克与犹太民权律师Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal相遇。他们1967年3月17日在纽约市结婚。那年晚些时候夫妇搬迁到密西西比州杰克逊,成为“密西西比第一对合法结婚的跨种族夫妇”。他们受到白人的骚扰和威胁,包括三K党。他们夫妇1969年生了一个女儿。沃克和她的丈夫于1976年离婚。
90年代中期,沃克与女创作歌手特蕾西·查普曼开始了一段恋情。
作品
小说和短篇故事集
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
- In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
- Meridian (1976)
- 《紫色姐妹花》 (1982)
- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
- To Hell With Dying (1988)
- The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
- Finding the Green Stone (1991)
- 《拥有快乐的秘密》 (1992)
- The Complete Stories (1994)
- By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
- The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
- Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) Random House ISBN 9781588363961
诗集
- Once (1968)
- Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973)
- Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
- Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
- A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
- Collected Poems (2005)
- Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
非小说类书籍
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
- Living by the Word (1988)
- Warrior Marks (1993)
- The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
- Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
- Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
- Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
- Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
- We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
- Overcoming Speechlessness (2010)
- Chicken Chronicles, A Memoir (2011)
延伸阅读
*愛麗絲·華克著,施寄青譯:《紫色姐妹花》(台北:大地出版社,1986)
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参考资料
外部链接
*[http://alicewalkersgarden.com 愛麗絲·華克官方网站]
*[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/alice-walker 诗歌基金会上的愛麗絲·華克简介]
*[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/486 Poets.org上的愛麗絲·華克简介]
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