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	Anniina's Alice Walker Page
		When Alice Walker was eight years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident.
		In high school, Alice Walker was valedictorian of her class, and that achievement, coupled with a "rehabilitation scholarship" made it possible for her to go to Spelman, a college for fl women in Atlanta, Georgia.
		Alice Walker was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, and in the 1990's she is still an involved activist.
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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Alice Walker (b. 1944)
		Walker's creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial terror, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture, particularly in the rural South.
		Alice Malsenior Walker was born in Eatonton on February 9, 1944, the eighth and youngest child of Minnie Tallulah Grant and Willie Lee Walker, who were sharecroppers.
		Walker's harshest critics have condemned her portrayal of fl men in the novel as "male-bashing," but others praise her forthright depiction of taboo subjects and her clear rendering of folk idiom and dialect.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-998 (1783 words)

	ALICE WALKER, Live! at the Homeless Poets Cafe
		Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and youngest child of Minnie Tallulah Grant Walker and Willie Lee Walker.
		Alice was self-conscious of the large white scar tissue left in her eye.
		Alice was also delighted to find out she was pregnant as this would save Leventhal from the Vietnam draft.
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	alice walker, everyday use by alice walker, alice walker biography, alice walker everyday use - Welcome to Black Writer ...
		Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers.
		When Alice Walker was eight years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident.
		Alice Walker was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, and in the 1990's she is still an involved activist.
	www.afropoets.net /alicewalker.html (283 words)

	Alice Walker Criticism
		The family dynamic in Alice Walker's work is a key part of the formative influence of "what has gone before." In Walker's first novel, the family configuration is defined by the child's special relationship to her grandfather and by the tension between father and grandfather.
		[Alice Walker's Meridian and You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down] are difficult in that, to varying degrees, they presuppose a certain special awareness on the part of their readers; they are also, at best, strong and passionately visionary pieces of prose with a quality of the epic poem.
		Walker's poems [in Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning]—dealing with her parents (Willie Lee is her father), friends and lovers, fl history—use clean, clear language and syntax.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Alice_Walker (1378 words)

	Alice Walker - MSN Encarta
		Alice Walker, born in 1944, American author and poet, most of whose writing portrays the lives of poor, oppressed African American women in the early 1900s.
		Born Alice Malsenior Walker in Eatonton, Georgia, she was educated at Spelman and Sarah Lawrence colleges.
		Walker's experiences during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence, including undergoing an abortion and making a trip to Africa, provided many of the book's themes, such as love, suicide, civil rights, and Africa.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572289/Alice_Walker.html (354 words)

	Alice Walker's Ecospirituality
		Walker declares in the poem "On Stripping Bark from Myself" that she, evidently the persona of the poem, is engaged in a "struggle.
		Alice Walker's vision may be called eschatological not only because it is hopeful enough to prescribe new ways of being and relating but also because it embraces that element of eschaton which we term "consummation." Hers is not, however, the consummation of the world in apocalyptic end-time.
		Walker's art and her activist engagement in a number of the great causes of the latter twentieth century -- racial justice, women's rights, Earth saving -- are expressions of her commitment to mutuality, sensuality, creativity, and freedom.
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	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Alice Walker
		Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia.
		In the summer of 1952 Alice Walker was blinded in her right eye by a BB gun pellet while playing "cowboys and Indians" with her brothers.
		Alice Walker's career took off as she quickly moved from a position at Tougaloo College to a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute.
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	Alice Walker
		When Alice Walker was eight years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident.
		In high school, Alice Walker was valedictorian of her class, and that achievement, coupled with a "rehabilitation scholarship" made it possible for her to go to Spelman, a college for fl women in Atlanta, Georgia.
		With profound artistry, Walker searches for, discovers, and declares the fundamental beauty of existence, as she explores what it means to live life fully, to learn from it, and to grow both as an individual and as part of a greater spiritual community.
	aalbc.com /authors/alice.htm (1429 words)

	English: Alice Walker
		Alice Walker writes through her feelings and the morals that she has grown with, she writes about the fl woman's struggle for spiritual wholeness and sexual, political, and racial equality.
		Walker's central characters are almost always fl women; the themes of sexism and racism are predominant in her work, but her impact is felt across both racial and sexual boundaries.
		When Alice Walker lived in Mississippi and was active in the civil rights movement and teaching she experienced these such things.
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	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Alice Walker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walker's women characters display strength, endurance, and resourcefulness in confronting — and overcoming — oppression in their lives, yet Walker is frank in depicting the often devastating circumstances of the "twin afflictions" of racism and sexism.
		Walker's beginnings as a writer are in the small rural town of Eatonton, Georgia, where she was the youngest of eight children of impoverished sharecroppers.
		Walker wrote many of the poems in the span of a week in the winter of 1965, when she wrestled with suicide after deciding to have an abortion.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/walker_a.htm (1860 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Arts & Culture. Alice Walker \| PBS
		Born on February 9, 1944, Alice Walker was the eighth and youngest child born to poor sharecroppers in Eatonton, Georgia.
		After two years of study, Walker was offered a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and although reluctant to leave the heart of the civil rights movement, she became one of the few fl students in attendance at Sarah Lawrence.
		Walker's first book of poems, completed while she was a senior at Sarah Lawrence, was largely written in the span of a week during the winter of 1965 when she was struggling with depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide after deciding to have an abortion.
	www.pbs.org /now/arts/walker.html (1149 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Alice Walker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walker's women characters display strength, endurance, and resourcefulness in confronting — and overcoming — oppression in their lives, yet Walker is frank in depicting the often devastating circumstances of the "twin afflictions" of racism and sexism.
		Walker's beginnings as a writer are in the small rural town of Eatonton, Georgia, where she was the youngest of eight children of impoverished sharecroppers.
		Walker wrote many of the poems in the span of a week in the winter of 1965, when she wrestled with suicide after deciding to have an abortion.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/walker_a.htm (1850 words)

	Amazon.com: Alice Walker: A Life: Books: Evelyn C. White (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walker was shot with a BB gun and left disfigured and blind in one eye, and her father was refused a ride to transport the injured girl into town and swindled out of $250 by a white doctor.
		Walker is still an active writer, and, as such, a work-in-progress, with much to contribute as a female and an author who refuses to be intimidated or restricted by the world.
		Walker is an intelligent woman, a writer who takes chances in her life and in her works, who uses her writing to challenge many aspects of society.
	www.amazon.com /Alice-Walker-Evelyn-C-White/dp/0393058913 (2843 words)

	Author Template
		In high school, Alice Walker was valedictorian of her class, and that achievement, coupled with a "rehabilitation scholarship" made it possible for her to go to Spelman, a college for fl women in Atlanta, Georgia.
		In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest achievements: the story of a woman's spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love.
		With profound artistry, Walker searches for, discovers, and declares the fundamental beauty of existence, as she explores what it means to live life fully, to learn from it, and to grow both as an individual and as part of a greater spiritual community.
	www.aalbc.com /authors/alice.htm (1429 words)

	Alice Walker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walker remembers that no matter how bad things were, her mother always had a beautiful and colorful garden.
		Walker is holding a photograph of her and her husband taken in the 1930s.
		Alice Walker, a poet and novelist, inspires young writers-to-be with her amazing ability to work words into art.
	www.wc.pdx.edu /alicewalker/walker.html (649 words)

	Alice Walker Essence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These days, Alice Walker is "chillin' in full demand." The rakish laughter, the sprouted dreadlocks, her very aura tell you so.
		Though neither of her parents went to school beyond the fifth grade, Alice, who was known to crawl behind the house with the Sears, Roebuck catalog, was sent to school at a very young age.
		Alice Walker is still at the center of the so-called controversy over Black male images in Black women's literature.
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	Alice Walker
		Although she was the last of eight children to sharecropper parents and thus economically disadvantaged, Walker graduated from college and then published her first book in 1968 at the age of 24 and has published a total of eleven books, including poetry (her first book was a collection of poetry) and criticism.
		Walker was a prodigy in high school; she must have been to win a scholarship to Spelman College in Atlanta and later transfer to Sarah Lawrence College, an elite women’s college in New York.
		Walker believes that the extent to which fl women can exercise their creativity is a measure of health of the entire society.
	www.csubak.edu /english/engl375/walker.htmlx (2818 words)

	Alice Walker Essence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These days, Alice Walker is "chillin' in full demand." The rakish laughter, the sprouted dreadlocks, her very aura tell you so.
		Though neither of her parents went to school beyond the fifth grade, Alice, who was known to crawl behind the house with the Sears, Roebuck catalog, was sent to school at a very young age.
		Alice Walker is still at the center of the so-called controversy over Black male images in Black women's literature.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n5_v20/ai_7869259 (791 words)

	Alice Walker
		However, her rebuttal is that she simply strives to create a meaningful story which allows for all of her characters to "come to recognize and acknowledge the divine both within themselves and in everything in the universe" (Bloom 90).
		Walker ends the second stanza by emphasizing her plight in life as "dark and rotting / and wounded, wounded" in order to suggest exactly how horrible the plight of the African American can be.
		Walker calls for the attention of all Americans to the unjust treatment of African Americans and presents them with the challenge of beginning to treat people justly.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/edit/walker.htm (1267 words)

	ALICE_WALKER definition , Term Papers on ALICE_WALKER by essay 411
		Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author and feminist whose most famous novel, ''The Color Purple'', won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award.
		Walker is widely respected for her outspoken attitude and views, regardless of the popular public opinions at the time, whether they favor her views or they do not.
		By Paola Gianturco and Toby Tuttle and Alice Walker
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	Alice Walker, a Mississippi writer of The Color Purple and Meridian
		Walker’s unique and distinguished writing style and her boldness on the issues she tackles in her stories have elevated her to the status of a legend in American literature.
		Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia.
		Alice Walker is and has been a strong and outspoken activist on a variety of issues.
	shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/AliceWalker/alicewalker.html (3133 words)

	Amazon.com: The Color Purple: Books: Alice Walker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alice Walker gives us Celie, 14 years old when the book opens, who has been raped, abused, degraded and twice impregnated by her father.
		Alice Walker is a wonderful writer and i love to watch and read her book's and movie's.
		Walker has complete command of the art of writing a work such as this, and has fully realized its potential in nearly every area of writing: character development, plot, language, style, the presentation of conflict and its resolution.
	www.amazon.com /Color-Purple-Alice-Walker/dp/0671727796 (2420 words)

	AlterNet: Alice Walker: Outlaw, Renegade, Rebel, Pagan
		But, Alice, you said that day, as we were in the paddy wagon or in the police wagon, that it was the happiest day of your life.
		AG: I was reading Evelyn White's biography of you, called "Alice Walker: A Life," and she goes back to 1967, and you had just come to New York, and you were submitting an essay to American Scholar.
		Posted by: emarquardt on Feb 14, 2006 9:36 AM Alice Walker says that her writing process for starting The Color Purple was to get a divorce from her husband, who she loved very much, and who was a very good person, and to move to the opposite coast.
	www.alternet.org /story/32215 (1750 words)

	Featured Author: Alice Walker
		A man in Cuba reminds Walker of her father and causes her to reflect on the different fates of these two men whose lives were both defined by poverty.
		Alice Walker returned to her childhood home of Putnam County Georgia for a premiere of "The Color Purple" in a movie theater that was segregated during her youth.
		In this essay adapted from her collection, "Living by the Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987," Alice Walker describes the origins of her short story "To Hell With Dying," which was reissued, with illustrations, as a children's book.
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	Alice Walker Interview
		And there is no better example of this idea than Alice Walker and her 1982 novel, "The Color Purple." In 1994, Walker dedicated an entire new volume, "The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult," to chronicling her complex journey as "The Color Purple" was made into a film.
		Walker says that she enjoys the work of many in this "new wave" of filmmakers, including Spike Lee and Robert Townsend, and is working with one of the producers of last year's critical hit, "Frida," on a film version of her book, "By the Light of My Father's Smile."
		Walker said that in the Color Purple, as in other works, she worked for and in honor of her ancestors.
	www.seeingblack.com /2003/x022803/walker.shtml (1264 words)

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