Alice Walker

Photograph by Ana Elena Pena.

About The Author

Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, and many other works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide. 

Books by Alice Walker

Sweet People Are Everywhere

(A Multicultural Picture Book About Kindness)

By Alice Walker
Illustrated by Quim Torres
“Deepened and expanded by its illustrations, this is a stunning introduction to the true meaning of a global community.”—School Library Journal

 They are all over the globe. Sweet people can be found from Canada to Congo to Cuba, from Afghanistan to Australia, ...
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