Hard times require furious dancing Alice walker made history as the first black woman to win the pulitzer prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, the color purple, which has been transformed from a novel, to a hollywood movie and latterly to a successful broadway musical. Alice Walker - Quotes Books Poems - Biography In 1973 walker published her first collection of short stories, in love and trouble: Alice walker poetry books . A picture story for the curious; For her admirers she is. And 'horses make a landscape look more beautiful' (1985). The author, most recently, of the poetry collection “taking the arrow out of the heart” feels a duty to read about countries devastated by war:. Alice walker has written seven novels, four collections of short stories, four childrens' books, and many volumes of essays and poetry. As well as being african american, her family has cherokee, scottish and irish lineage. New poems, taking the arrow out of the ...