Image - Alice Walker
Image - Alice Walker

Alice Walker-Author of The Color Purple and Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

Duration
1:05:22

Alice Walker


Author, The Color Purple and Hard Times Require Furious Dancing


In conversation with Laura Sydell, Correspondent, Arts Information Unit - Moderator


The masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Walker is also a prominent political activist, feminist and a voice of cultural progressivism. With a quiet and enlightened sense, Walker speaks about the world as she sees it. Come and hear the legendary storyteller as she explores gut-wrenching and sorrowful topics in her new collection of poems, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing.


This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 4, 2010

Speakers

Alice Walker

Author, The Color Purple and Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

In conversation with Laura Sydell

Correspondent, Arts Information Unit