Living by the Word

Essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple—"Vintage Alice Walker: passionate, political, personal, and poetic" (Los Angeles Times).

In a follow-up to her collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Walker takes a look at a vast range of issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of The Color Purple, to the history of African-American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution and nuclear war. Walker travels broadly a...