Alice Walker

1. Alice Walker Poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, teacher, editor, publisher, womanist and activist

2. Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in the town of Ward Chapel, a neighboring community of Eatonton, Georgia. She is the eighth and last child of her parents. 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. The physical result was that Walker lost the sight in her right eye, which developed a disfiguring white scar.

3. Walker attended primary and middle school at East Putnam, established in 1948 under the leadership of her father, Willie Lee Walker. She subsequently attended the only high school open to blacks in segregated Eatonton, Butler-Baker High school, graduated in 1961. Then walker enrolled at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she quickly became involved in the civil rights movement. Walker transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in 1964. At Sarah Lawrence, Walker’s commitment to becoming a writer was nurtured by her teachers.

4. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence in 1965, Walker accepted a position with the New York City Department of Welfare. A year later, she moved to Jackson, Mississippi, and worked for the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Walker took depositions(n. 口供；宣誓作证) from blacks who had been evicted from(驱逐，逐出，赶走，赶出家园) their homes for attempting to register to vote. She has spoken for the women's movement, the anti-apartheid([ə'pɑ:theit, -hait] n. 种族隔离) movement, for the anti-nuclear movement Alice Walker started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press, in 1984. She currently resides in Northern California

5. Spelman College • Founded: 1881 • Nickname/Mascot: Jaguars • Colors: Columbia Blue, White • Motto: Our Whole School for Christ • Spelman is considered the top female Historically Black College in the nation

6. Walker is a prolific writer in multiple genres. Her fiction, in particular her novels, have established her as a canonical figure in American letters, as well as a major figure in what scholars term the renaissance in African American women’s writings of the 1970s. • Walker’s first published work of fiction, “To Hell With Dying” (1967), was published when she was just twenty-three years old. It appeared in The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers.In addition to her novels, Walker has published several volumes of poetry. Her first book, Once, published in 1968, contains poems written both in Africa and during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence.

7. The Works of Alice Walker •  The Works of Alice Walker: • 1968 — Once: Poems • 1970 — The Third Life of Grange Copeland • 1973 — Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems • 1973 — In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women • 1974 — Langston Hughes, American Poet • 1976 — Meridian • 1979 — I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (editor) • 1979 — Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning • 1981 — You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories • 1982 — The Color Purple • 1984 — In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose • 1984 — Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful • 1988 — To Hell With Dying              (Illustrations by Catherine Deeter) • 1988 — Living by the Word • 1989 — The Temple of My Familiar

8. ` • 1991 — Her Blue Body Everything We Know:Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete • 1991 — Finding the Green Stone              (Illustrations by Catherine Deeter) • 1992 — Possessing the Secret of Joy • 1993 — Warrior Marks              (In collaboration with Pratibha Parmar) • 1996 — Alice Walker: Banned • 1996 — The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult • 1997 — Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism • 1998 — By the Light of My Father's Smile • 2000 — The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart • 2001 — Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother SpiritAfter the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon • 2003 — Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth : New Poems • 2003 — A Poem Traveled Down My Arm : Poems and Drawings • 2004 — Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart • 2005 — Pema Chodron And Alice Walker in Conversation - Audio CD • 2006 — There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me • 2006 — We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

9. Walker’s writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and her books have sold more than ten million copies. The Color Purple, now a classic of American literature, celebrated its 28th anniversary in 2010. The award-winning novel served as the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film and has been adapted for the stage by Scott Sanders.

10. Alice Walker Awards and Recognitions • In 1983, The Color Purple won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction(普利策奖), making Walker the first African-American woman to win, as well as the National Book Award (美国国家图书奖). Walker also won the 1986 O. Henry Award for her short story "Kindred Spirits", published in Esquire magazine in August of 1985.   In 1997 she was honored by the American Humanist Association as "Humanist of the Year" and in 2006 Alice was inducted ([in'dʌkt] vt. 引导；感应；使…就职；征召入伍) into the California Hall of Fame 

11. Alice WalkerFirst Ever California Hall of Fame held at the California Museum for Women, History and the ArtsSacramento, USA - 06 December 2006

12. Alice Walker and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

13. More information about Alice Walker • Log on www.alicewalkersgarden.com the official website for Alice Walker • That is all, thank you very much