About the Author

Alice Walker, winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple, has earned international recognition. She is the author of several novels, includeing Possessing the Secret of Joy, Temple of My Familiar, Meridian, The Color Purple, and The Third Life of Grange Copeland. The recipient of many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal award for fiction fromm the National Institute of Arts and Letters.