Walker has written both fiction and non-fiction books, short stories, poetry collections, essays, and children's books. Examples of Walker's works include The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), The Color Purple (1982), In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart (2002), Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (2010), "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" (1983), and There Is A Flower At The Tip Of My Nose Smelling Me (2006).
For more African American Literature by women, consider Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), A Raisin in the Sun (1959), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Beloved (1987), Kindred (1976),...
