Living By Grace: Alice's Writing Influences

[Main Page]

[Biography]

[Complete Works]

[Writing Influences]

[Fun Facts]

[Bibilography]

Alice Walker's Writing Influences

Main Version

Read below to see some of the authors Alice has read and loved!

**Writers Who've Influenced Alice:**
[African-American]	[African]	[Women]	[Southern]	[Russian]	[Philosophers]	[Poetic]

Main Influences

These are some of the writers that Alice Walker read who inspired her during her years in school. If you wish to find out a little bit more about each of the authors, click on their names to link to more detailed biographical information.

Note:If your browser does not support the "Back" function, please write down the referring URL address:
"https://members.tripod.com/chrisdanielle/atextinfl.html."

**African-American Writers**
NAME	WHO WERE THEY?	WORKS
Arna Bontemps	Harlem Renaissance Poet	Poems "A Note of Humility" "God Give Men"
Gwendolyn Brooks	Poet	"We Real Cool"
Langston Hughes	Harlem Renaissance Poet	"Negro Speaks of Rivers" (poem) Tales of Simple(stories)
Zora Neale Hurston (novel)^[MAJOR]	Harlem Renaissance Writer	Their Eyes Were Watching God^[MAJOR] (novel) Mules and Men (Collected Folklore)
Nella Larsen	Harlem Renaissance Writer	Novels Quicksand Passing
Jean Toomer^[MAJOR]	Writer	Cane (novel)^[MAJOR]

Back to the Top

**African Writers**
NAME	WHO WERE THEY	WORKS
Elechi Ahmadi	Nigerian Writer	The Concubine
Bessie Head	South African Writer	Novels When Rain Clouds Gather A Question of Power
Camara Laye	Guinean Writer	The Dark Child
Okot p'Bitek	Ugandian Poet	Lak Tar (White Teeth) (novel)

Back to the Top

**Women Writers**
NAME	WHO WERE THEY	WORKS
Charlotte Bronte	19^th Century Romantic Period Writer	Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte	19^th Century Romantic Period Writer	Wuthering Heights
Kate Chopin	Author	The Awakening
Simone de Beauvoir	Existentialist Writer	The Ethics of Ambiguity
Doris Lessing	South African Writer	Novels The Black Madonna Diaries of Jane Somers

Back to the Top

**Southern Writers**
NAME	WHO WERE THEY	WORKS
William Faulkner	Southern Writer	The Sound and the Fury
Flannery O'Connor	Georgia Writer; National Book Award Winner	A Good Man is Hard to Find (novel)

Back to the Top

**Russian Writers**
NAME	WHO WERE THEY	WORKS
Dostoevsky	19^th Century Novelist	Novels Crime and Punishment Notes From the Underground The Insulted and the Injured
Gogol	Russian Playwright	The Inspector General (play)
Gorky	19^th Century Socialist Writer	The Life of Klim Samgin (novel)
Tolstoy	Russian Novelist	Novels War and Peace Anna Karenina
Turgenev	Novelist	Virgin Soil Smoke

Back to the Top

**Philosophers**
NAME	WHO WERE THEY	WORKS
Albert Camus	Existentialist Playwright	A Happy Death The Stranger
Nietzsche	Prussian Philosopher	Thus Spoke Zarathustra Human, All too Human Ecce Homo

Back to the Top

**Poetic Influences**
NAME	TYPE OF INFLUENCE	KINDS OF WORKS
E.E. Cummings	Contemporary Poet	Tulips and Chimneys
Emily Dickinson	19^th Century Poet	I Could Not Stop for Death (poem)
Robert Graves	Poet and author	I, Cladius (novel) Claudius the God (novel)
Japanese Haiku	Unrhymed Japanese verse whose three lines contain 5,7,5 syllables respectively. (Webster definition)	no examples
Li Po (Li Bai)	Chinese Poet	no examples
Ovid	Roman Poet; Epic Writer	no examples
William Carlos Williams	Pulitzer-Prize winning poet	Paterson(poems) The Clouds(poems)
Zen Epigrams	Concise Poetic form dealing with a thought or an event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought. (Webster definition)	no examples

Back to the Top

**Living By Grace: The Life and Times of Alice Walker**
[Main Page]	[Biography ]	[Complete Works]	[Writing Influences]	[Fun Facts]	[Bibliography]

This page was created, written and designed March 1999. Send all comments to the following e-mail address chrisdani@yahoo.com. Copyrighted April 7, 1999. None of the material on this website may be used without the permission of the webmistress.
Available URL: https://members.tripod.com/chrisdanielle/atextinfl.html"