Editing Alice Walker (section)

==Selected works==

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===Novels and short story collections===
* ''[[The Third Life of Grange Copeland]]'' (1970)
* ''In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women'' (1973, includes "[[Everyday Use]]")
* ''[[Meridian (novel)|Meridian]]'' (1976)
* ''[[The Color Purple]]'' (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)
* ''[[Possessing the Secret of Joy]]'' (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)

===Poetry collections===
* ''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'' (2010)
* ''The World Will Follow Joy'' (2013)
* ''Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart'' (2018)

===Non-fiction books===
* ''[[In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose]]'' (1983)
* ''Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973–1987'' (1988)
* ''[[Warrior Marks]]: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women'' (with Pratibha Parmar, 1993)
* ''The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult'' (1996)
* ''Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism'' (1997)
* ''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: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness'' (2006)
* ''Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker in Conversation: On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy'' (2005)
* ''Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel'' (2010)
* ''The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses, & Babe, A Memoir'' (2011)
* ''The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way'' (2013)

===Essays===
* "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self" (1983)

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