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    Alice Walker


    Born

    in Eatonton, Georgia, The United States

    February 09,


    Website


    Genre

    Fiction, Poetry, African American


    Influences

    Howard Zinn, Zora Neale Hurston


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    Noted American writer Alice Walker won a pris Prize for her stance against racism and sexism in such novels as The Color Purple ().

    People awarded this preeminent author of stories, essays, and poetry of the United States. In , this first African woman for fiction also received the national book award. Her other books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. In public life, Walker worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.

    Noted American writer Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her stance against racism and sexism in such novels as The Color Purple ().

    People awarded this preeminent author of stories, essays, and poetry o

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    Alice Walker

    American author and activist (born )

    For other people named Alice Walker, see Alice Walker (disambiguation).

    Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, )[2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In , she became the first African-American woman to win the pris Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.[3][4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.

    Walker, born in rural Georgia, overcame challenges such as childhood injury and segregation to become a valedictorian and eventually graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She began her writing career with her first book of poetry, Once, and later wrote novels, including her best-known work, The Color Purple. As an activist, Walker participated in the Civil Rights Movement, advocated for

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    Overcoming Speechlessness

     

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    Audiogram introduction to Meridian
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    Audiogram introduction to THE Temple of My Familiar
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    Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd

    From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual.

    For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Col