ALICE WALKER
Award-winning African-American author and poet, Alice Walker writes mostly about the lives of poor, oppressed African
American women in the early 1900s. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker published her first volume of poetry, "Once,"
in 1968.
She won the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for her best-known work, the novel "The Color Purple"
(1982), which was praised for its strong characterizations and the musical quality of its colloquial language.
Walker's other works include the novels "Meridian" (1976), "The Temple of My Familiar" (1989),
and "Possessing the Secret of Joy" (1992); volumes of poetry such as "Revolutionary Petunias"
and "Other Poems" (1973); and essay collections, including "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist
Prose" (1983).