"Alice's words are like the only thing you want to eat when you are ill."---A Rundhati Roy<BR><BR>And mind of one of the world's most celebrated living writers. Throughout her career, which has spanned four decades, Alice Walker has given us a unique vision through her work as a critically acclaimed novelist, influential essayist, poet, activist, spiritual mentor, and, most recently, political blogger.<BR><BR>The World has Changed brings to light the vision underpinning Walker's extraordinary body of work through a series of illuminating conversations between Walker and other significant literary and cultural figures, including Isabel Allende, Howard Zinn, Pema Chodron, Claudia Tate, Margo Jefferson, William R. Ferris, Paula Giddings, and Amy Goodman.<BR><BR>Arranged chronologically from 1973 through 2009, the conversations reflect different stages in Walker's artistic and spiritual development and offer extraordinary insight into her career. An introductory essay by noted literary scholar Rudolph P. Byrd---along with Byrd's closing conversation with Walker---brings the book back full circle.<BR><BR>The World Has Changed is a major new addition to the Alice Walker canon that will delight and engage readers for years to come.