Table of Contents
Alice Walker: Interview with John O'Brien from Interviews With Black Writers (1973) [on her early writing career and inspirations]
Alice Walker: Interview with Claudia Tate from Black Women Writers At Work (1983) [on being part of the emerging coterie of black women writers in the 1970s - with Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, etc.]
Alice Walker: “Moving Towards Coexistence,” Interview with Ellen Bring from The Animal's Agenda (1988) [on her animal rights activism and its importance to her world view and writing]
Alice Walker: “Writing to Save My Life,” Interview with Claudia Dreifus from The Progressive (1989) [on politics and fiction writing]
Alice Walker's Appeal: An Interview with Paula Giddings from Essence (1992)
Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen and Isabel Allende, “Giving Birth, Finding Form: Where Our Books Come From,” from Creative Conversations Series (1993) [on the feminist inspirations for her writing]
Alice Walker with Jody Hoy, “The Richness of Ordinary Stuff,” (1994) [on her personal philosophy]
Alice Walker: “My Life As Myself,” A Conversation with Tammy Simon from Sounds True Recordings (1995)
Alice Walker: “The World Is Made of Stories,” A Conversation with Justine Toms and Michael Toms from New Dimensions Tapes (1996)
Alice Walker: “On Finding Your Bliss,” Interview by Evelyn White from Ms. (1998)
Alice Walker and Pema Chodron In Conversation: “On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy” from Sounds True (1998) [on the importance of Buddhisim to her work and writing]
Alice Walker: “I know what the earth says,” Interview with William R. Ferris from Southern Cultures (2004) [on being a black female writer from the South]
Alice Walker and Margo Jefferson: A Conversation from LIVE FROM THE NYPL (2005) [on her success with the Color Purple, being a celebrity]
Alice Walker: Outlaw, Renegade, Rebel, Pagan by Amy Goodman from Democracy Now (March 2006)[on her politics and activism]
Alice Walker on Fidel Castro with George Galloway from The Fidel Castro Handbook (November 2006) [on why she supports Castro]
Conversation with Alice Walker by Marrianne Schnall from feminist.com (December 2006)
Conversation with Howard Zinn at City Lights Bookstore [date?] [on her Mississippi years, experiences with Zinn as a student, role of the civil rights movement in her work]