Alice Walker
Alice is a vegetarian, gardener, world traveler and spiritual explorer. She lives in Mendocino, California.
"Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. When Alice Walker was eight years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident. In high school, Alice Walker was valedictorian of her class, and that achievement, coupled with a "rehabilitation scholarship" made it possible for her to go to Spelman, a college for black women in Atlanta, Georgia. After spending two years at Spelman, she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and during her junior year traveled to Africa as an exchange student. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965." Read the rest of the bio at:
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/
source : wikipedia
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple.
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* 1 Early life
* 2 Activism and marriage
* 3 Writing career and success
* 4 Personal life
* 5 Awards and other recognition
* 6 Controversy and criticism
* 7 Selected works
o 7.1 Novels and short story collections
o 7.2 Poetry collections
o 7.3 Non-fiction
o 7.4 Works about Alice Walker
* 8 See also
* 9 References
* 10 External links
o 10.1 Video
[edit] Early life
Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of sharecroppers.[1] As well as being African American, her family has Cherokee, Scottish and Irish lineage.[2] Although she grew up in Georgia, she has stated that she often felt displaced t