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Dedications | Alice Walker | AW
gave the title of The Temple of My Familiar to her first novel since The Color Purple, dedicated to her lover Robert Allen
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Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Walker | The young AW
always, from her highschool days, had a boyfriend. While at Spelman College
she met two male students attending other colleges with whom she had important relationships: the black Robert Allen
and the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Walker | In New York in the swinging sixties AW
two lovers: the white Jack Heyman
, with whom she delighted in shocking race-conscious restaurant-goers, and the black Robert Allen
, an old friend who was by... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Walker | AW
reconnected with Robert Allen
(now a draft-resister, a successful journalist, and a former bookstore owner) on a brief visit to California in 1971, and again in New York a few years later. Each of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Walker | Her relationship with Allen
survived his infidelity, but not AW
's increasing interest in lesbianism. By the end of the 1980s she had opted for erotic relationships with women, though she and Allen remained friends... |
Occupation | Alice Walker | In partnership with Robert Allen
and Belvie Rooks
, AW
set up a small publishing firm, Wild Trees Press
, to publish only what we love. qtd. in White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 388 |
Residence | Alice Walker | AW
moved from New York to San Francisco, where she briefly shared a downtown apartment with Robert Allen
. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 308, 310 |
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