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African-American History
Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker; novelist,
poet, short story writer essayist, educator; biographer and editor was
born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonville, GA. Winner of numerous awards,
Walker is widely known for her contribution to the development of black
feminist writings.
At age eight, Walker was blinded
in one eye by a shot from a BB gun. In 1967, her first works of poetry,
The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It? was published and won first
prize in the American Scholar's annual essay contest.
Walker's third novel The Color Purple,
(The Third Eye of Grange Copeland was her first), was a tremendous success
and became a Warner Brothers movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.
The Color Purple was on the New York Times bestseller list for 25weeks
and won the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
Although she has been offered numerous
academic awards and honorary degrees, Walker has thus far, chosen to refuse
them all.
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