20 facts about Alice Walker??

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She is an African American author and feminist.

She won a Puylitzer prize for The Color Purple.

Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, United States.

Her family has Cherokee, Scottish and Irish lineage.

After high school, Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.

She graduated in 1965 from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers (Bronxville postal zone), New York.

She spent a summer as an exchange student in Uganda.

She was married to activist Mel Leventhal from 1967 to 1976.

She has a daughter, Rebecca Walker (also a prominent activist and writer).

Her first book of poetry was written while she was still a senior at Sarah Lawrence.

She took a brief sabbatical from writing when she and Leventhal lived in Mississippi and worked in the U.S. civil rights movement.

Walker's first work of fiction, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, was published in 1970.

In 1976, Walker's second novel, Meridian, was published. The novel dealt with activist workers in the South during the civil rights movement, and closely paralleled some of Walker's own experiences

Walker became a political activist, in part due to the influence of activist Howard Zinn, who was one of her professors at Spelman College. She spent several years in the 1960s working specifically as a civil rights activist, and continues to be an advocate for civil rights for all people.

She is active in environmental, feminist, and animal rights causes, and has campaigned against female genital mutilation.

She is also an advocate for the country of Cuba, and has spoken openly about ending the decades-long embargo against Cuba. Walker has visited Cuba on several occasions.

Walker also won the 1986 O. Henry Award for her short story "Kindred Spirits", published in Esquire magazine in August of 1985.

The Color Purple Walker not only won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983, but also the American Book Award.

Her book "The Same River Twice" was an autobiography of sorts, discussing specific events in Walker's life, as well as the perspective of experiencing reaction to "The Color Purple" twice, once as a book and then as the movie was made.

Walker has chronicled her struggle with Lyme disease.

She has also received a number of other awards for her body of work, including:

The Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
The Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York

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20 facts about Alice Walker??

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1. Born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, GA
2. First African-American to win Pulitzer Prize for fiction
3. Currently lives in Mendocino, CA with dog, Marley
4. Author of book, "The Color Purple"
5. Alice Walker and her husband, Melvyn Leventhal were the first legally married interracial couple to live in the state of Mississippi
6. She created and taught the first class in the country dedicated to African-American Women Writers at Wellesley College
7. She was awarded a grant from the Gugenheim Foundation
8. She won an American Book Award for "The Color Purple"
9. Religiously, she defines herself as a pagan, or "earth worshipper"
10. She meditates on a regular basis
11. She celebrates Christmas by a sweat (via the sauna), a vegetarian feast, music making and dancing with friends
12. She is against female genital mutilation
13. She is against nuclear weapons
14. Alice wearsh her hair in locs - it's been over ten years since she's combed her hair
15. Her favorite word is, "irregardless"
16. This same word is on her license plate
17. Favorite musical influences - Bob Marley, and Sweet Honey in the Rock
18. Alice never thought one of her books would become a film
19. She thought the women in the film, "Waiting to Exhale" were "strange" because she didn't know any women who were, "that desperate for men."
20. A childhood accident blinded her in one eye


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Why is it that people (kids) doing homework are always out for the easy way. My parents bought me an encyclopaedia when I was young , and always did my own research. Today it is so easy with the internet , but the easiest way is still to get someone else to do it for them. Can't you even type Alice Walker into your own search engine ?

Answer 7

Who the hell is she?