Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender. She is best known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Read more about Alice Walker:  Early Life, Activism, Personal Life, Writing Career, Selected Awards and Honors

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    “It seems our fate to be incorrect ... and in our incorrectness stand.”
    —Alice Walker (b. 1944)

    “If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.”
    —Alice Walker (b. 1944)