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Born in Eatonton, GA, in 1944, a daughter of sharecroppers, Alice Walker has lived a remarkable and courageous life, and she continues to do so as an elder. Taking inspiration from her great-great-great-great grandmother who lived enslaved in the American South and died at age 125, Walker's activism stems from a philosophy that embraces all life and expresses itself through courageous truth-telling, a resolute stand for freedom, and radical love.

Alice Walker: A Woman for Our Times offers a full examination of the intellectual underpinnings of Walker's life and her...

""The Inside Light" New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston" caps a decade of resurgent popularity and critical interest in Hurston to offer the most insightful critical analysis of her work to date. Encompassing all of Hurston's writings--fiction, folklore manuscripts, drama, correspondence--it fully reaffirms the legacy of this phenomenal writer, whom "The Color Purple"'s Alice Walker called "A Genius of the South."

""The Inside Light"" offers 20 critical essays covering the breadth of Hurston's writing, including her poetry, which up to now has received little attention. Essays...

This new biography takes into account the whole woman--not just the prolific author of such great works as "Their Eyes Were Watching God," "Moses, Man of the Mountain," "Jonah's Gourd Vine," "Mules and Men," as well as essays, folklore, short stories, and poetry--but the philosopher and the spiritual soul, examining how each is reflected in her career, fiction and nonfiction publications, social and political activity, and, ultimately, her death.

When we ask what animated the woman who achieved all that she did, we must necessarily probe further. Not one of the other existing...