Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change: Alice Walker in conversation with Jewelle Gomez

IMOW proudly presented Alice Walker in conversation with author and activist Jewelle Gomez on November 14, 2007, in San Francisco as part of the museum’s Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change speaker series. Walker won the Pulitzer Prize, the first for an African-American woman, for her novel The Color Purple. Her other best-selling novels, translated into more than two dozen languages, include By the Light of My Father’s Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar.