Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories: Living by the Word, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, In Love & Trouble, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

Compelling collections of short fiction and essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple and "marvelous writer" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Whether she is writing fiction or nonfiction, sharing personal reflections or expressing political views, Alice Walker is without question "one of [our] best American writers" (The Washington Post). The first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize—for The Color Purple—Walker is both a committed artist and engaged activist, as...