Alice+Walker

=American Literature: Alice Walker =



Alice Walker is a poet, activist, novelist, and short story writer, raised by two sharecroppers in Eatonton, Georgia. She was born on the ninth of February in 1944. She was the eighth child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker.When walker was eight she was inspired to become a fiction writer, when her brother shot her in the eye with a BB gun. The reason this inspired her was because her and her brother had to quickly create a story on how it happened and why so they wouldn't be punished. After this incident Walker was partially blinded in one eye, so she couldn't play outside like normal, Walker then began to write poetry.

She was valedictorian of her class and because of that achievement, she was granted a rehabilitation scholarship. This achievement made it possible for Walker to go to a college for black women in Atlanta, Georgia. During her junior year of college, she traveled to Africa as a foreign exchange student, then receiving her bachelor of arts degree in 1965.

After finishing college, she lived in New York for a short period of time in the mid 1960's, then moved to Tougaloo, Mississippi where she had her daughter Rebecca in 1969. In 1984, Walker started her own publishing company, named Wild Tree Press.

Alice Walker has written many novels and poems. Her most famous novel, "The Color Purple", earned her Pulitzer Prize in 1983.

A Poem By: Alice Walker
Our love is either rose or thorn. One leaves us whole, the other torn. Which one is which? There is no trick. The first we smell; the second, pick. When we pick love we end its growth. Not just the picked but of us both. Together we must each have 'ground'. That's where love's nourishment is found.

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