Description

Description: A blank greeting card features a halftone portrait of the smiling novelist Alice Walker in her garden, where she is hunched over a garden bed. Image is from a photograph taken by Robert Allen.  Her signature is across the lower left corner. A poem (from Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful) is printed on the verso of the blank card.

Signed black and white 7” x 5” greeting card from Wild Trees Press, Navarro, California. Includes transmittal envelope dated 23 Jan. 1986. Item #A02074

Alice Walker (1944- ) is an American novelist, poet, and social activist. She was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer prize which was awarded to The Color Purple in 1983. She was a significant part of the civil rights movement, actively advocating for black women’s rights and coining the word “womanism.”

Condition: In very good condition.