Alice Walker, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, portrays black women struggling for sexual as well as racial equality and emerging as strong, creative individuals. Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She is the eighth child of Willie Lee and Minnie Grant Walker. Alice Walker is an excellent writer notable for her unique style of bringing her characters' struggles to life.

When Walker was eight, her right eye was injured by one of her brothers, resulting in permanent damage to her eye and facial disfigurement, which secluded her as a child. This is where her feminine point of view first emerged in a household where girls were forced to do the domestic chores unaided by the brothers. Throughout her writing career, Alice Walker has been involved in the black movement and displays strong feelings towards the respe

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In 1961, Walker entered Spelman College, where she joined the Civil Rights Movement. Two years after graduating in 1965, she married Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. In the summer of 1968, she went to Mississippi to be in the center of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off farms or taken off welfare roles for registering to vote. In New York, she worked as an editor at Ms. Magazine, and her husband worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Alice Walker has been a very influential author throughout the black community, and her audiences are very much interracial. Alice Walker was a very personal author who was not afraid to show or hide anything in the struggle against racism and support for black women. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Walker has accomplished so much in her life as a writer and as a Civil Righ

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