Evelyn White

Jan 18, 2025 | sfbaytimes.com | Evelyn White

By Evelyn C. White–As the official biographer of Alice Walker, I spent nearly a decade researching the art and activism of a writer whose signature work, The Color Purple (1982), has sold more than five million copies and been translated into more than thirty languages. Moreover, The Color Purple has been adapted for two Hollywood movies and multiple stage productions in the U.S. and abroad.

Jan 18, 2025 | sfbaytimes.com | Evelyn White

By Evelyn White–January 28, 2025, will mark the 65th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s death. Here’s an excerpt from my book, Alice Walker: A Life (2004) that recounts Alice’s reclamation of the author that she, now 80, celebrates as a literary foremother. “Today, visitors to the Garden of the Heavenly Rest will find a well-manicured cemetery … . But on the sweltering day when Alice first visited the site, it was choked with waist-high brambles and weeds.

Nov 5, 2024 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White

Today when the airwaves will be awash with political pundits and prognosticators, let us consider the poets. “When Black and White See Eye to Eye” by Maxine Tynes (1949-2011), from Save The World For Me  (1991, Pottersfield Press). … Good times go round and roundBut when they don’t Some push, some shoutSome fight; all stand and frown.

Oct 21, 2024 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White

Early in my career, I was fortunate to count as a colleague reporter Randy Shilts whose bestselling book And the Band Played On (1987) chronicled the rise of the AIDS epidemic. Now comes Michael G. Lee whose new biography, When the Band Played On, provides a powerful portrait of the journalist who died from complications of AIDS in 1994, at age 42.

Oct 21, 2024 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Yvette d'Entremont |Evelyn White |Philip Moscovitch |Suzanne Rent

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