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  • Essay / Alice Walker Research Paper - 947

    She moved to San Francisco and fell in love with Robert Allen, editor of the Black Scholar. They both moved into a house in Mendocino where she wrote non-stop and soon published her second book of short stories, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down. In 1982, she wrote the novel The Color Purple, in which she won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. Critics again accused her of portraying African-American men too harshly. This astonishing novel was soon adapted into a film, produced by Quincy Jones and directed by Steven Spielberg. Her sister Ruth established the Color Purple Foundation to promote charitable work in support of education. Walker published his third volume of poetry, Horse Make a Landscpe Look More Beautiful. In 1988, her second book of essays, Living By the Word, was published as well as her epic novel The Temple of My Familiar in 1989. She wrote another novel which spoke of her sudden realization that she might be bisexual, titled The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult. In a 2006 interview, Alice Walker discusses her affair with Tracy Chapman in the middle