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English: The speaking voice of Alice Walker on Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4. She discusses filming The Color Purple with Steven Spielberg. Date: 19 May 2013:
Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal (born March 18, 1943) [1] is an American attorney known for his work as a community organizer and lawyer in the 1960s–70s Civil Rights Movement, and for being the husband of author Alice Walker for ten years; they were the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi history.
Charming Billy, a novel by American author Alice McDermott, tells the story of Billy Lynch and his lifelong struggle with alcohol after the death of his first love. [1] It won the National Book Award [2] for fiction as well as the American Book Award, [3] and was shortlisted for the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award. [4]
Alice Walker: The Color Purple [24] Paperback [i] Eudora Welty: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty [25] The comprehensive "Fiction" category returned in 1984.
So Long, See You Tomorrow is set in Maxwell's hometown of Lincoln, Illinois and tells of a murder that occurred in 1922. Fifty years later the guilt-ridden narrator recounts how the relationships between two neighboring families—the Smiths and the Wilsons—led to the murder of Lloyd Wilson and the suicide of Clarence Smith.
This drama revolves around Father Hugh Kennedy, a recovering alcoholic. In the beginning of the story Kennedy has returned to his home town (an unnamed New England seaport city that is the seat of a bishop, rather than an archbishop; it thus most closely corresponds with O'Connor's own birthplace of Providence, RI) to try to mend his professional career as a priest.
The Fixer is a novel by Bernard Malamud published in 1966 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. [1] It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction (his second) [2] and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War.Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, [1] and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans.