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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [ 2 ] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Over the span of her career, Walker has published ...
Sep 27, 2024 · Alice Walker became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple (1982). One of the most important literary figures of second-wave feminism, Walker’s novels, short stories, and poems are celebrated for their insightful treatment of African American culture and for their complex portraits of women.
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- A writer and feminist, Alice Walker is especially known for novels, poems, and short stories that offer great insight into African American culture...
- Alice Walker was born in 1944, the eighth child of African American sharecroppers. She was accidentally blinded in one eye, so her mother gave her...
- Alice Walker’s most famous work is the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple (1982), which depicts the growing up and self-realization of a...
Happy Birthday, my favorite brother Bill Walker, born March 23. Who left us decades too soon. The memory of our bond, and your steadfastness beside me as a child, remains a strength. Thank you. ~aw. Photo of Alice Walker and Rodney Lee, both of Georgia! by Canadian filmmaker Anne Wheeler, 2023.
Apr 3, 2014 · Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. The youngest daughter of sharecroppers, she grew up poor, with her mother working as a maid to help support the family's ...
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Learn about Alice Walker's life, works, and activism on her official website. She is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a prolific author of novels, stories, poems, and essays, and a defender of human and animal rights.
B. 1944. Share. 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 ...
Explore the book list of Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple and other novels, poems, essays and prose. Find her latest works, journals, interviews and children's books.
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