Alice Walker Poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, teacher, editor, publisher, womanist and activist.

Alice Walker

Poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, teacher, editor, publisher, womanist and activist

Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in the town of Ward Chapel, a neighboring community of Eatonton, Georgia. She is the eighth and last child of her parents. 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. The physical result was that Walker lost the sight in her right eye, which developed a disfiguring white scar.

Walker attended primary and middle school at East Putnam, established in 1948 under the leadership of her father, Willie Lee Walker. She subsequently attended the only high school open to blacks in segregated Eatonton, Butler-Baker High school, graduated in 1961. Then walker enrolled at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she quickly became involved in the civil rights movement. Walker transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in 1964. At Sarah Lawrence, Walker’s commitment to becoming a writer was nurtured by her teachers.

After graduating from Sarah Lawrence in 1965, Walker accepted a position with the New York City Department of Welfare. A year later, she moved to Jackson, Mississippi, and worked for the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Walker took depositions(n. 口供；宣誓作证 ) from blacks who had been evicted from(驱逐，逐出，赶走，赶出家园 ) their homes for attempting to register to vote. She has spoken for the women's movement, the anti-apartheid([ə'pɑ:theit, -hait] n. 种族隔离 ) movement, for the anti-nuclear movement Alice Walker started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press, in 1984. She currently resides in Northern California

Spelman College Founded: 1881 Nickname/Mascot: Jaguars Colors: Columbia Blue, White Motto: Our Whole School for Christ Spelman is considered the top female Historically Black

College in the nation

Walker is a prolific writer in multiple genres. Her fiction, in particular her novels, have established her as a canonical figure in American letters, as well as a major figure in what scholars term the renaissance in African American women’s writings of the 1970s.

Walker’s first published work of fiction, “To Hell With Dying” (1967), was published when she was just twenty-three years old. It appeared in The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers.In addition to her novels, Walker has published several volumes of poetry. Her first book, Once, published in 1968, contains poems written both in Africa and during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence.

The Works of Alice Walker  The Works of Alice Walker: 1968 — Once: Poems 1970 — The Third Life of Grange Copeland 1973 — Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems 1973 — In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women 1974 — Langston Hughes, American Poet 1976 — Meridian 1979 — I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...

              A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (editor) 1979 — Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning 1981 — You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories 1982 — The Color Purple 1984 — In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 1984 — Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful 1988 — To Hell With Dying

              (Illustrations by Catherine Deeter) 1988 — Living by the Word 1989 — The Temple of My Familiar

` 1991 — Her Blue Body Everything We Know:

              Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete 1991 — Finding the Green Stone

              (Illustrations by Catherine Deeter) 1992 — Possessing the Secret of Joy 1993 — Warrior Marks

              (In collaboration with Pratibha Parmar) 1996 — Alice Walker: Banned 1996 — The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult 1997 — Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism 1998 — By the Light of My Father's Smile 2000 — The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart 2001 — Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit

              After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon 2003 — Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth : New Poems 2003 — A Poem Traveled Down My Arm : Poems and Drawings 2004 — Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart 2005 — Pema Chodron And Alice Walker in Conversation - Audio CD 2006 — There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me 2006 — We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For  

Walker’s writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and her books have sold more than ten million copies. The Color Purple, now a classic of American literature, celebrated its 28th anniversary in 2010. The award-winning novel served as the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film and has been adapted for the stage by Scott Sanders.

Alice Walker Awards and Recognitions

In 1983, The Color Purple won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction(普利策奖 ), making Walker the first African-American woman to win, as well as the National Book Award (美国国家图书奖 ). Walker also won the 1986 O. Henry Award for her short story "Kindred Spirits", published in Esquire magazine in August of 1985.   In 1997 she was honored by the American Humanist Association as "Humanist of the Year" and in 2006 Alice was inducted ([in'dʌkt] vt. 引导；感应；使…就职；征召入伍 )

into the California Hall of Fame 

Alice WalkerFirst Ever California Hall of Fame held at the California Museum for Women, History and the ArtsSacramento, USA - 06 December 2006

Alice Walker and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

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