Alice Walker
BACKGROUND INFORMATION - BIOGRAPHY
AUTHOR INFORMATION-ALICE WALKER
Alice Walker was born to a Georgia sharecropping family in 1944. At a young age, an accident seriously damaged her eye. As a result of her disfigurement, she became shy and reserved, suffering from low self-esteem. Walker compensated for what she thought was a lack of physical attractiveness with an intense interest in learning. She won a scholarship to Spelman College, a Black University in Atlanta, and then graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1985. In 1968, she published a collection of poetry called Once: Poems.
Walker has written several novels, all of them combining the struggle for civil rights of Black citizens and the struggle for women's rights as equals in the African-American community and family. Her efforts to combine these two struggles have brought her heavy criticism. Embattled by racism, many Black critics and public figures have denounced her for calling attention to the internalized......
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