•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.
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•Alice Walker also won the 1986 O. Henry Award for her short story "Kindred Spirits", published in Esquire Magazine in August of 1985.
•In 1982 Alice became a professer at University of California.
•She spent a summer as an exchange student in Uganda.
•Her first book of poetry was written while she was still a senior at Sarah Lawrence.
•The Color Purple Walker not only won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983, but also the American Book Award.
•Alice Walker has chronicled her struggle with Lyme disease.
•She celebrates Christmas by a sweat (via the sauna), a vegetarian feast, music making and dancing with friends.
•She is against nuclear weapons.
•Alice never thought one of her books would become a film.
•Alice Walker created and taught the first class in the country dedicated to African-American Women Writers at Wellesley College?
•Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages.
•In 1992 she Publishes Possessing the Secret of Joy
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I just need all those and like it took me forever so if you can just give me 25 facts thanks a bunch u will get like 10 points and ill vote ur answers best just please
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