It looked bad for him.

Novelist, poet, feminist and womanist                          

Selected works:

Novels and short story collections:

The Third Life of Grange Copeland - 1970
Everyday Use - 1973
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women - 1973
Roselily - 1973
Meridian - 1976
The Color Purple - 1982
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories - 1982
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self - 1983
Am I Blue? - 1986
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 - 2005
Devil's My Enemy {2008}

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
Poem at Thirty-Nine
Expect nothing

Non-fiction:

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose - 1983
Living by the Word - 1988
Warrior Marks - 1993
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult - 1996
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism - 1997
Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure - 1997
Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation - 1999
Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon - 2001
Women
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For - 2006
Mississippi Winter IV
                          

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - The Color Purple - 1983 - Alice being the first black woman to win.
National Book Award -  The Color Purple - 1983
O. Henry Award - Kindred Spirits - 1986
American Humanist Association as Humanist of the Year - 1997
The Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
The Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York

California Hall of Fame - The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts - 2006.                          

The word womanism was adapted from Pulitzer Prize winning author, Alice Walker. In her book In Search of Our Mother’s Garden: Womanist Prose, Walker used the word to describe the perspective and experiences of "women of color". Although most Womanist scholarship centers on the African American woman's experience, other non-white theorists identify themselves with this term.

The Color Purple has been a target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number eighteen.