AliceWalker

**ALICE WALKER** = =

• __Personal Life__ Born Feb 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia she was the eight child in her family, which were sharcroppers. In her early she felt misplaced in george, and at in early age she had and incedent when she was eight, that caused her to blind in one eye. Walker attended Spellman college for three years, and then transfered to Sarah Lawrence college in New York were she graduated. Alice was married as well in her personal life at one point to, Melvyn Leventhal from 1967-77 they also had one daughter in 1969 and her name was Rebecca. They wer the first inter-racial marriage couple in Mississippi, at the time cause Melvyn her husband was jewish.

__• Professional Life__ Walker was a civil rights activist for a while, and then in 1970 she became a editor at Ms. Magazine. Walker's first work of fiction, //The Third Life of Grange Copeland//, was published in 1970 In 1976, Walker's second novel, //Meridian//, was published. In 1982, Walker would publish what has become her best-known work, the novel //The Color Purlple.//

• __Major works__ 
 * The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
 * Everyday Use(1973)
 * In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
 * Meridian (novel) (1976)
 * The Color Purple (1982)
 * You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
 * Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self (1983)
 * To Hell With Dying (1988)
 * The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
 * Finding the Green Stone (1991)
 * Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
 * The Complete Stories (1994)
 * By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
 * The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
 * Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart (2005)


 * Poerty Collections**
 * Once (1968)
 * Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973)
 * Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
 * Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
 * Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
 * Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
 * A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
 * Collected Poems (2005)

Non- fiction

 * In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
 * Living by the Word (1988)
 * Warrior Marks (1993)
 * The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
 * Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
 * Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
 * Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
 * Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
 * Women
 * We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
 * Mississippi Winter IV

• __Awards won__ In 1983, The Color Purple won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Walker the first African-American woman to win, as well as the National Book Award. Walker also won the 1986 O. Henry Award for her short story "Kindred Spirits", published in Esquire magazine in August of 1985. On December 6, 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inducted Alice Walker into the California Hall of Fame.
 * The Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
 * The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters
 * The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
 * The Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York

• Period and/or Style 1970-present is the period she is still puplishing work. Style more has to do with black culture and or struggle to find one self as a women. • __Favorite Themes__ Some of Alice Walkers themes mainly, deal with civil-rights, and black stuggle, and black culture.