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BackList got the following press release about the launch of Alice Walker's new website:

For over forty years, Alice Walker's works have touched the hearts and minds of people across the world through her writings, and through the movie made from her Pulitzer Prize winning book, "The Color Purple." Alice's website is a garden of inspiration for long-time fans and newcomers alike. This website not only chronicles the work of a woman who has spent her life working towards uplifting the soul of humanity, but signals the beginning of new works relevant to today's challenges, calling us to go deeper with what is important, and what brings us joy.

     The website title is inspired by her essay from 1974, "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens," in which she explores the creativity of women, especially that of black women in the South. The essay includes Alice's appreciation of her own mother's gift for gardening: "She planted ambitious gardens...whatever she planted grew as if by magic..."
  
    Alice Walker's Garden features her poetry and writings, photographs, timeline of her work, a bookstore and a link to her NEW blog! Alice will use her blog to publish new articles like "Anxiety Soup!" -- her latest article created especially as medicine for this moment in our history. You can also read Alice's other timely writings like the blog posted there now regarding the election and Barack Obama.

    People the world over look to Alice for her thoughts on current events, and now she will make them available to us as her own journey unfolds. She speaks to us from the welcome page of her website: "It is with infinite hope that I offer these thoughts from the internal road. I want to share with you thoughts about other things, like gay marriage, orphaned children, and the impact of war." Alice Walker is one of the best-known and most respected authors in contemporary writing today. Alice was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the first person to create and teach a class dedicated to African-American women writers at Wellesley College. Alice is a novelist, short story writer, poet, activist, mother, daughter, gardener, and in her own words, "a happy woman."

     Alice Walker lives in Northern California while continuing her activism throughout the world. She creates radiant gardens wherever she lives - and is often found outside in her garden picking greens for dinner, flowers for the table, and gathering ideas for new writings from clusters of zinnias.

    Alice reminds us: "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." This is Alice Walker's first and only site and blog, and she intends this new communication offering to be a source of information and inspiration for "our right to grow."