You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down Resources

Check out Alice Walker's official website, which features her bio, snippets of poetry and prose, a blog, links out to other authors' works, photographs, and essays.

This website has two brief videos and a whole lot of biographical info on Walker and her accomplishments.

There are no productions of You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, but there is a documentary about Alice Walker's life.

In this interview, Walker explains her idea of "womanism," why the slaughter of animals for food is so disturbing, and how her work embodies her philosophies. You know, life, the universe, and everything.

Poet and critic Katha Pollitt has nooo problem speaking her mind about Walker's collection of stories.

This one is all about the power of poetry in our time, why it's important to open our eyes to the lives of others, and the voice of grandmothers.

A quick video of Alice Walker reflecting on her life and experiences.

A BBC interview with Alice Walker on women's issues, the state of the feminine, what men can do to change violence against women—and how women have to change, too.

Alice Walker reads "Fame" and "The Abortion"; her interviewer reads "A Letter of the Times, or Should This Sado-Masochism Be Saved?" and "Coming Apart: By Way of Introduction to Lorde, Teish and Gardner." Also: there's tons of chatting about the stories in between readings.