Alice Walker - Author Biographies

Alice Walker was born on 9 February 1944 Malsenior in Whitechapel near Eatonton, Georgia. His parents, Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker Walker Tallulah, were impoverished sharecroppers. Alice was the youngest of eight children.

In high school, Alice was voted "most popular student." He was also class valedictorian and graduated Prom Queen. She attended Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College Scholarship, Degree in 1965 as a junior college, he spent a summeras an exchange student in Uganda, Africa.

After college, Alice has helped in voter registration in Georgia, blacks registered to vote. Then he took a job in the social department of the City of New York.

Alice and lawyer and activist Mel Levanthal entered into an interracial marriage in 1967, when it was still illegal in some countries. They had a daughter Rebecca in 1970, but divorced in 1976. Rebecca is also an activist and writer.

While Alice was an activist in collegeand a feminist (she defines a womanist) and still active as reflected in their books and poems. It 'also the author of short stories, a novelist, anthologist, poet and publisher. It 'still a political activist and defender of civil rights for all. It 'also an activist for the environment, animal rights and the rights of women. It 'opened against female genital mutilation, so his book Warrior Marks, "" The Temple of My Familiar "and" possess the secret ofJoy. "

Alice Walker was known for his Nobel Prize-known book, "The Color Purple." Many of us could not wait for the next film by Steven Spielberg and starring Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, director.

Alice Walker Books:

Fiction:
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
Meridian (1976)
You Can not Keep A Good Woman Down: Stories (1981)
The Color Purple (1982)
The temple of myFamiliar (1989)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
The Complete Stories (1994)
1998 with the light of my father's smile ()
The road is 2000 with a broken heart ()
Now the Times to Your Heart (2005 Open)

Subjects:
In search of our mother's garden: womanist prose (1983)
Living by the Word (1989)
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the sexual bond between women (1993)
The same river twice: Tribute to the Hard (1996)
Anything We Love Can BeSaved (1997)
Sent by Earth: A grandmother Spirit, after the fire of the world
Trade Center and the Pentagon (2001)
Langston Hughes, American poet (2002)
We are the ones we expected: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (2006)

Poetry:
Once: Poems (1968)
Revolutionary petunias and other poems (1973)
Good Night Willie Lee. I will keep you in the morning (1979 Lake)
Horses make a landscape look more beautiful (1988)
His whole body Blue WeTo Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 91991)
absolute faith in the goddess of the earth (2003)
A Poem traveled down my arm (2003)

Children's Books:
To Hell with Dying (1988)
Finding the green stone (1991)
It is a flower on the tip of my nose smell Me (2006)