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Alice Walker was born the youngest of eight children
in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944. She
went to college on a scholarship and rushed off to
New York soon after graduation. Her stay in New
York was brief. She moved to Tougaloo, Mississippi
in the mid-1960’s and gave birth to her daughter.
During this time, Walker became active in the Civil
Rights Movement during and remains active today.
In 1982 she published The Color Purple, which
earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Soon after,
she started her own publishing company, Wild Trees
Press. She immersed herself in the controversial
issue of female circumcision in Africa in two
books: The Temple of my Familiar (1989);
and Possessing the Secret of Joy
(1992). Her work largely depicts the struggles of
sexism, racism and poverty that women have shared
throughout history. She balances these struggles,
however, by portraying women’s strength as the solid
rock of a family, the leader in a community, and
spiritual-being.
Alice Walker currently resides in Northern
California.
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