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Walker was born in eatonton, georgia, the youngest of eight children, to willie lee walker and minnie lou tallulah grant. The daughter of sharecroppers, she studied at spelman college 196163 and sarah lawrence college b. Alice walker is a vegetarian, gardener, world traveler and spiritual explorer. Alice walker was born on february 9, 1944, in putnam county, georgia. Mar 02, 2020 alice walker is a pulitzer prizewinning, african american novelist and poet most famous for authoring the color purple. His book and the truth shall set you free, calls judaism an incredibly racist religion which preaches racial superiority, claims. In 1982, she wrote the novel the color purple, for which she won the national book award for hardcover fiction, and the pulitzer prize for fiction. She endured years of teasing and low selfesteem throughout childhood, but nonetheless graduated as valedictorian. Poet, essayist, and novelist alice walker was born february 9, 1944, in eatonton, georgia, the eighth and last child of sharecroppers willie lee and minnie lou grant walker. Alice walker, 1944, africanamerican novelist and poet, b. The first book in the series has been an international success and a best seller. Her father was a poor sharecropper who once remarked that alice was wonderful at math but a terrible farmer. Alice walker books biography and list of works author.
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