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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   (1815 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)

  
 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)

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