Alice Walker by aLex Cruz

Date of Birth: February 9, 1944
Birthplace: Eatonton, Georgia
Education: Spelman College, Sarah Lawerence College
Career: author

Alice Walker is an American writer that has short stories, novels and poems that are centered on African American culture. She was the eight child of African American sharecroppers. As she was growing up she accidently hurt her eye that resulted in it being blind in that eye. Her mom gave her a typewriter and let her write instead of doing chores. She went to Spelman college with a scholarship and then transferred to Sarah Lawrence College. Once she graduated in 1965, she moved to Mississippi and there she became involved in Civil Rights.


In 1970, her first novel was published. That novel is "The Third Life of Grange Copeland". It is a narrative that goes 60 years and 3 generations.


In 1973 she published "Revolutionry Petunias and Other Poems" and "In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Woman". These are centered around the theme of abuse and sexist violence in the African American community.


After moving to New York, Walker published "Meridian" in 1976. It is a the coming of age stor of many Civil Rights workers in the 1960's.


Then in 1982 we get her most famous novel published, "The Color Purple". It's a novel about an African American girl growing up and achieving self-realization in a Georgia town between the years of 1909 and 1947. This novel was eventually made into a movie by Steven Spielberg in 1985.


Alice Walker is a very good writer and she loved to write about her culture. She is most famous for her novel "The Color Purple" but she has also other works.