Alice Walker Biography
Alice Walker is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist from the United States. She won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Color Purple, which she published in 1982. Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland are two of her novels. Walker, a devout feminist, coined the term womanist in 1983 to refer to “a black feminist or a feminist of color.”
How old is Alice Walker? – Age
She is 77 years old as of 9 February 2021. She was born Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, United States.
Alice Walker Parents -Family
Walker was born to Minnie Tallulah Grant and Willie Lee Walker. Walker’s parents were both sharecroppers, though her mother supplemented her income by working as a seamstress. Walker, the youngest of eight children, started school at East Putnam Consolidated when she was four years old.
Alice Walker Husband
Walker met Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights attorney, in 1965. They married in New York City on March 17, 1967. Later that year, the couple moved to Jackson, Mississippi, and became Mississippi’s first legally married interracial couple. Whites, including the Ku Klux Klan, harassed and threatened them. Rebecca, the couple’s daughter, was born in 1969. Walker divorced her husband in 1976.
How much is Alice Walker worth? – Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $6 Million.
Alice Walker Education
Walker went to Butler Baker High School, which was the only black high school in the area. She graduated as valedictorian and went on to Spelman College in 1961 after receiving a full scholarship from the state of Georgia for having the highest academic achievements in her class. During her time at Spelman, she found two professors, Howard Zinn and Staughton Lynd, to be excellent mentors, but both were transferred two years later. Walker was offered another scholarship, this time from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and she accepted it following the dismissal of her Spelman professor, Howard Zinn.
How did Alice Walker go blind? – Blindness
Walker’s right eye was injured when she was eight years old when one of her brothers fired a BB gun. Walker was unable to receive immediate medical attention due to her family’s lack of access to a car, resulting in her permanent blindness in that eye. Walker began reading and writing after the injury to her eye. Walker’s scar tissue was removed when he was 14, but the scar is still visible. In her essay “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self,” she describes it.
Alice Walker Writing Works
Walker’s first collection of poetry, Once, came out four years after she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Before returning to the South, she worked for the New York City Department of Welfare. Walker and Charlotte D. Hunt discovered an unmarked grave in Florida in 1973 that they thought belonged to Zora Neale Hurston. Jean Toomer’s poem Georgia Dusk, which appears in his book Cane, contains the line “a genius of the south.” Alice Walker is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist from the United States.
She is the author of The Color Purple and Possessing the Secret of Joy, among other works. She published The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart, a collection of short fiction based on her own life, in 2000. Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker’s mentor and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, is her godmother. Walker’s papers, which included 122 boxes of manuscripts and archive material, were donated to Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library in 2007. Drafts of novels such as The Color Purple, unpublished poems and manuscripts, and correspondence with editors are among the items in the collection.
Alice Walker Meridian
Meridian, Walker’s second novel, was published in 1976. Meridian is a novel about civil rights activists in the South during the 1960s, with events that closely resemble some of Walker’s own. Her most well-known work, The Color Purple, was published in 1982. The story follows a young, troubled black woman as she navigates not only racist white culture, but also patriarchal black culture. The book became a best-seller and was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg starring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as a 910-performance Broadway musical in 2005.
Alice Walker Books
♦ In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
♦ Living by the Word
♦ Warrior Marks
♦ The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
♦ Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism
♦ Go Girl!: The Black Woman’s Book of Travel and Adventure
♦ Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation
♦ Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon
♦ We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
♦ Overcoming Speechlessness
♦ Chicken Chronicles, A Memoir