Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender. She is best known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Read more about Alice Walker:  Early Life, Activism, Personal Life, Writing Career, Selected Awards and Honors

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    “There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.”
    —Alice Walker (b. 1944)