Alice Walker: Author of the Color Purple (People to Know)
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Good fit if you want...
- You teach The Color Purple and need student-facing background on Alice Walker.
- You collect concise author biographies in Enslow Pub Inc.'s People to Know series.
- When you want immersive details, the setting creates a strong emotional tone.
Maybe skip if...
- You want a comprehensive critical study of The Color Purple or Walker’s complete bibliography.
- You expect an adult memoir or new interviews with Alice Walker.
- You need the newest edition, freshest examples, or the most current framing.
Summary
Barbara Kramer profiles Alice Walker in this 128-page People to Know volume, tracing Walker’s early life, activism, major works including The Color Purple, and her influence on contemporary African American literature.
Edition on file: 1995 • Enslow Pub Inc • 128 pages • ISBN 9780894906206.
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Why this book now
Teachers and readers revisiting The Color Purple will find Kramer’s focused biography useful for classroom context and discussions about Walker’s activism and literary legacy.
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Quick Easy to move through
At roughly 128 pages with clear headings and likely illustrations, this People to Know biography is a short, single-session read suitable for middle-school to teen readers.
What stands out here
This Enslow Pub Inc. edition emphasizes a compact, classroom-ready profile of Alice Walker and highlights The Color Purple as the central work linking life and legacy.
Best way to approach it
Read sequentially for a quick life-and-works overview, then pull short sections for classroom handouts or student reports on Walker and The Color Purple.
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The likely reading experience leans toward a reading experience that should show its character pretty quickly once you start. Net effect: a compact read that should get to its point quickly. It also has the feel of a backlist title rather than a brand-new release.
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