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Alice Walker party invitation

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P752

Overview

Invitation to a book party celebrating the publication of Alice Walker's collection of short stories, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, at the Women's Building in San Francisco, California.

Dates

  • Creation: May 23, 1981

Conditions Governing Access

No access restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Spencer Library Staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.

Biography of Alice Walker (1944-)

Born on February 9, 1944, Alice Walker is a prominent writer and activist, perhaps best known for her novel, The Color Purple (1982), the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and the National Book Award in 1984.

Walker has written many other books, essays, and poetry collections, including Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973), Meridian (1976), You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down (1981), In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens (1983), Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1984), The Temple of My Familiar (1989), and Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992). Many of Walker’s works draw from her own personal life and deal with themes of experiences of women of color, racism, sexism, violence to women, bisexuality, and multigenerational perspectives.

Extent

1 folder ; Folder measures 22x37 cm.

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

MS P752

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase, Bolerium Books, 2020.

Title
Guide to the Alice Walker Collection
Subtitle
Alice Walker party invitation
Author
Finding aid prepared by cmp. Finding aid encoded by cmp.
Date
2021-02
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Finding aid written in English.
Finding aid permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/10407/9249146820
Preferred citation
Alice Walker party invitation, MS P752, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

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