Zanette-AliceWalker

Alice Walker (February 9, 1944-Present)  · Childhood accident blinded her in one eye · Attended Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College on scholarships, graduating in 1965 · Volunteered in the voter registration drives of the 1960s in Georgia  · Went to work after college in the Welfare Department in New York City  · Married in 1967-divorced in 1976 · Writer, Activist, Poet, and Essayist <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">First book of poems came out in 1968 and her first novel in 1970 after birth of her daughter <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Zora Neale Hurston was a large source of inspiration <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Credited with introducing the word "womanist" for African American feminism <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Poems, novels and short stories dealt with themes familiar to readers of her later works <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">rape, violence, isolation, troubled relationships, multi-generational perspectives, sexism and racism <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Works are known for their portrayals of the African American woman's life <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">She depicts vividly the sexism, racism and poverty that make that life often a struggle <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Also portrays as part of that life, the strengths of family, community, self-worth, and spirituality <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Most famous for //The Color Purple// in 1982 which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1989 and 1992, //The Temple of My Familiar// and //Possessing the Secret of Joy// <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Third Life of Grange Copeland //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(1970) <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Meridian //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(1976)
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=<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">Works Cited = <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;">Lewis, Jone Johnson. __Womans History: Alice Walker.__ 2010. 21 April 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"> <http://womenshistory.about.com/od/alicewalker/a/alice_walker.htm>. <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;">Walker, Alice. __Alice Walker's Garden.__ 2008. 21 April 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"> <http://www.alicewalkersgarden.com/alice_walker_bio.html>.