•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.
•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.
•After finishing college, Walker lived for a short time in New York, then from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s, she lived in Tougaloo, Mississippi, during which time she had a daughter, Rebecca, in 1969.
•Alice Walker started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press, in 1984.
•She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color of Purple.
•She was married in 1967 and she was divorced in 1976.
•The Color Purple was made into a movie in 1985.
2007-01-15
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