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Alice Walker was born in Eatonton Georgia February 4,1944. She was the 8th child of American Shopkeepers.She started school at the age of 4.
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Alice Walker was the youngest of 8 children. Both of her parents where shopkeepers. Her parents where Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant
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Somewhere between the ages of 7 and 8 Alice started writing in private because she had a lot on her mind. One of her brothers accidentally shot her in the eye with a BB gun and she became blind.
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Alice Walker met Martin Luther King Jr when she attended Spelman College. She participated in the 1963 March On Washington.
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Alice Walker received a scholarship to Spelman College where she studied for 2 years then she later transferred to Sarah Lawrence College. She graduated in 1965
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Alice Walker married Melvyn R. Leventhal in 1967. They had a daughter named Rebecca but they ended up getting divorced in 1976.
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The poems in Alice's walkers first volume Once are based on her experiences during the civil rights movement and what she did when she traveled to Africa.
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Alice Walker and her husband where the first ever legally married interracial couple living in Mississippi.
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Alice was best known for her book 'The Color Purple"
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Alice Walker was a African American author, poet and activist. Walker is also a womanist. She wrote books, novels and poems about African American history, Our relationship to God and race relationships.
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Alice Walker overcame the feeling of being lonely and left out. She was different from everybody else no one knew she would be as famous as she is now.
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Alice walkers most recent book was published in 2011 which was called Chicken Chronicles which is about her experiences raising and caring for a flock of chickens.
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Alice Walker has influenced my life today by how hard she worked to get where she is. The fact that she started writing when she was very little and that she had big dreams and a bright future.
