Noted author Evelyn C. White, whose 2004 biography “Alice Walker: A Life” won high praise for its treatment of the first black female Pulitzer Prize winner, will give a lecture and reading at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Viking Union Room 565 on the Western Washington University campus.

Her scheduled talk is titled “The Universe Provides: Musings on Alice Walker, Abundance, and the Art of Biography.”

A former reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle, White has had her articles, essays and reviews published in numerous magazines and newspapers throughout the country. She is the author of the book “Chain Chain Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships” and edited “The Black Women’s Health Book: Speaking For Ourselves.” She also is co-author of the photography book “The African Americans.”