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