BOOK REVIEW
The World Has Changed: Conversations With Alice Walker
A Book Review
In response to Indirah Ambrose’s prompt for 28 August — Write about Alice Walker
Today, I am sharing a beautiful book by Alice Walker: The World Has Changed: Conversations With Alice Walker. Alice Walker is an acclaimed American author, poet, feminist, and activist, who won the Pulitzer Prize in Literature at the age of thirty-nine.
She is considered one of our most extraordinary living writers and known for her literary gifts, from her discussions of black identity and feminism to contemplations on suffering and joy.
From her first short story, “To Hell with Dying,” which was “discovered” by the poet Langston Hughes in 1967 to The Color Purple and, more recently, her bestselling children’s book, “Why War Is Never a Good Idea,” Walker has inspired, critiqued, and pushed the limits of storytelling.
The book, The World Has Changed: Conversations With Alice Walker features a series of fascinating conversations with her, offering an insight into her career and her personal and political development and includes…
