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Alice Walker

In conversation with Michael Krasny

Tuesday, April 20, 2010  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Alice Walker is an essayist, poet, fiction writer and ardent social activist. Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, captures the racial, gender and economic tensions of the rural south during the 1930s, through the viewpoints of two African American women. Alice Walker’s involvement in social-political issues spans the Civil Rights Movement, anti-war protests on the eve of the Iraq war, and travels to Gaza following the Israeli offensive there in late 2008. Her forthcoming book, Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters “the horror” in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel, follows the writer’s travels to each of those three regions, charting the aftermath of violent conflict and political upheaval. Filled with personal experience, reportorial details and reflection, Alice Walker examines the silence that is a frequent response to the atrocities of the past century and what individuals can do to break it.

Michael Krasny is the host of the KQED radio program Forum. He is also a Professor of English at San Francisco State University and the author of Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life. His many interviews for City Arts & Lectures include Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Joyce Carol Oates, and Saul Bellow.

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