Alice Walker The Color Purple Website EvaluatorsSusan Collins – Northwest Whitfield High School, Georgia
Nancy Price – University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Website Reviewer and Compiler Chris Huber - on leave, Missouri Site Ratings
1 = Poor 2 = Fair 3 = Good 4 = Excellent Anniina's Alice Walker Page
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/ This is "an excellent source for biographical and critical articles" on the web. The site
contains a three-paragraph biography and a current picture of Walker followed by dozens of links organized under these headings: Biographical; Interviews; Poetry, Short Stories, and Excerpts; Essays, Articles, and
Criticism; Bibliographies; Reviews; Miscellaneous; Other; The Works of Alice Walker. It was last updated in July of 1999.
Overall Rating: 4The Color Purple
http://hsc.csu.edu.au/english/teaching/materials/ref_lib/171/purple/the_color_purple.htm This is "a perfect site for anyone who teaches" The Color Purple. It is one long page with questions and writing assignments, commentary, discussion topics,
notes for teachers, and a couple of paragraphs explaining the structure and language of the novel. In this study guide aimed at the high school level, teacher Heather Cobban covers the novel thoroughly.
Overall Rating: 4Alice Walker
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Walker/walker.htm In the short biography on this page, there are
several "pungent quotes" of Walker. There are external links to articles about Hurston and Faulkner, writers that Walker mentions as influential in her writing. There are internal links to a one-page
synopsis for the film The Color Purple, a personal chronology featuring one or two-line entries for many years from Walker's birth in 1944 to 1992, and a three-book bibliography.
Overall Rating: 3
Voices from the Gaps - Women Writers of Color - Alice Walker
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AliceWalker.html This site opens with a quote explaining Walker's novel Possessing the Secret of Joy. It includes a three-paragraph biography, a bibliography with works by
and about the author and related links. Among the links is Walker's thoughtful letter to President Clinton about Cuba in which she presents a passionate argument in a compassionate way, a fine model for student writers.
Overall Rating: 3 |
