Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9th, 1944 in Easton, Georgia, the eighth and youngest child of Minnie Grant and Willie Lee Walker. Though her parents were poor sharecroppers and dairy farmers she grew up in a very loving home environment. Her first memories include her great-great-grandmother Nettie, after whom she named a character in her novel The Color Purple.

In the summer of 1952, at the age of eight, while playing "Indians and Cowboys" with her five brothers and two sisters (Walker was an Indian with a bow and arrow in her hands), her elder brother Bill, accidentally blinded her in her right eye when she shot his BB gun. Walker became very self-conscious of the large white scar tissue that the acc

Alice Walker may have been born in a poor family, however she managed to overcome all obstacles thrown in her way; the unfortunate accident that left her blind in one right eye, the loss of her two children, a failed marriage and the hardships of racial discrimination throughout her life. These events are also reflected in the plots, setting, theme and characters of The Color Purple. The content of the novel is of this nature due to Alice Walker's childhood and things that influenced her in her later life.

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