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Bookmark or Share- Alice Walker - Biography and Literary Works of Alice WalkerAlice Walker was born on the 9 th of February, in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, U.S. She was a bright daughter of Willie Lee Walker, a sharecropper, while her mother, Minnie Tallulah, was a seamstress. She enjoyed the colors of life during her early years. However, aged eight, a fatal incident changed the happy course of her life when her brother ...
- Alice Walker’s Journals Depict an Artist Restless on Her LaurelsAlice Walker’s Journals Depict an Artist Restless on Her Laurels. As the writer counts honors and advances—and keeps tabs on rivals, lovers, and detractors—the drive to succeed is the drive ...
- Alice Walker | Poetry FoundationAlice Walker. Poet, essayist, and novelist Alice Walker was born in 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, to sharecroppers Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. The author of numerous books, she “is one of the country’s best-selling writers of literary fiction,” according to Renee Tawa in the Los ...
- Alice Walker | Biography and Awards | American Masters | PBSAlice Walker has been defined as one of the key international writers’ of the 20th century. Walker made history as the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature as well ...
- Alice Walker (Author of The Color Purple) - GoodreadsNoted American writer Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her stance against racism and sexism in such novels as The Color Purple (1982). People awarded this preeminent author of stories, essays, and poetry of the United States. In 1983, this first African woman for fiction also received the national book award.
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