I know Alice Walker won the Pulitzer for her fiction, but I’m all about her essays and her poems. I’m particularly obsessed with her womanist essays from the 1970′s. She is rad for so many reasons that I can’t begin to mention here, if you’re curious about the amazing life she has led go to her Wikipedia page or pick up In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. I was very happily surprised to find out that she maintains a website, complete with a blog that includes her most recent writings which are poems and essays. Even cooler is that the website is called Alice Walker’s Garden and the quote that follows is: “In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.”