Alice Walker

About Alice Walker

African-American poet and author who is best known for her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel, The Color Purple. Meridian (1976) and Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems are two of her other publications (1973).

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet and social activist. In 1982, she published her novel Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for Hardcover Novels and the Pulitzer Prize for Novel. She also wrote the novel Meridian and The Third Life by Grange Copeland. An ardent feminist, Walker coined the term womanist to mean "a black or black feminist" in 1983.

Genre	African-American literature
Notable works	The Color Purple
Spouse	Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal (married 1967, divorced 1976)
Children	Rebecca Walker
Born	Alice Malsenior Walker, February 09, 1944, Eatonton, Georgia, U.S.
Partner	Robert L. Allen, Tracy Chapman
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, poet, political activist
Period	1968–present
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1983, National Book Award, 1983
Alma mater	Spelman College, Sarah Lawrence College

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Trivia

She met Martin Luther King, Jr. in the early 1960s and worked in Mississippi as a Civil Rights activist.

Alice Walker before fame

She began writing at the age of eight and finished her first collection of poetry while attending Sarah Lawrence College. Before going to California in the 1970s, she worked as an editor for Ms. magazine.

Achievement of Alice Walker

She met Martin Luther King, Jr. in the early 1960s while working as a Civil Rights worker in Mississippi.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$6 Million

Alice Walker family life

Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant had seven children together. In 1967, she and Melvyn Roseman Leventhal became the first interracial couple to legally marry in the state of Mississippi. In 1976, they divorced. Rebecca Walker, her daughter, is also a writer.

Associations of Alice Walker

Rosa Parks, a civil rights leader, was an inspiration to her.

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