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Authors: Alice Walker
By the Light of My Father's Smile (27 page)
ALSO BY ALICE WALKER
FICTION
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
Possessing the Secret of Joy
The Temple of My Familiar
The Color Purple
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down Meridian
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
NONFICTION
Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit
Anything We Love Can Be Saved
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
Warrior Marks
(with Pratibha Parmar)
Living by the Word
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
POEMS
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm
Her Blue Body Everything We Know
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems Once
BOUT THE
A
UTHOR
Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel
The Color Purple.
Her other novels include
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy
, and
In the Temple of My Familiar.
She is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, six previous volumes of poetry, including
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm
, and several children's books. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California.