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Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author whose most famous novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award .Walker's writings, including poems, stories, essays and novels, focus on the struggles of African-Americans, and particularly African-American women, against societies that are racist, sexist, and often violent. Her writings tend to emphasize the strength of black women and the importance of African-American heritage and culture.
Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the United States. She attended Spelman CollegeSpelman College is a four-year liberal-arts college for women in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1881, the historically black institution began as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary . Spelman enrolls about 2,100 students. The college is part of the Atlanta in Atlanta, GeorgiaThis article is about the state capital of Georgia. For other things named Atlanta, please see Atlanta (disambiguation). skyline Atlanta is the capital and largest city of the state of Georgia, a state of the United States of America. It is the county sea and graduated in 19651965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). Events January-February January 4 United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his " Great Society" during his State of the Union address. January 14 Prime Ministers of N from Sarah Lawrence CollegeFounded in 1924, Sarah Lawrence College is a co-educational, four-year liberal arts college located in the Lawrence Park section of Yonkers, New York. However, it is located in the postal zone of Bronxville, New York, and usually chooses to identify with in New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York,. Her first book of poetry was written while she was still a senior at Sarah Lawrence. She returned to the South to work in the U.S. civil rights movement.
Walker was also an editor for Ms. Magazine. An article she published in 1975 was largely responsible for the renewal of interest in the work of Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston ( January 7, 1891 January 28, 1960) was an African-American author. Her most famous novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God''. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, grew up in Eatonville, Florida; and grew up to study anthropology at Ba.
A political activist, in 1996 Walker wrote to President Bill Clinton to protest the Cuban embargo. She is also active in environmental, feminist, and civil rights causes.
Selected works
- Once (poems)
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland
- In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
- Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems
- Meridian
- Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning
- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories
- The Color Purple
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
- To Hell With Dying
- Living by the Word
- The Temple of My Familiar
- Finding the Green Stone
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems
- Possessing the Secret of Joy
- Warrior Marks
- The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
- Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
- By the Light of My Father's Smile
- The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart
- Letter to President Clinton
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