Delaney
Juliet
Alice Walker was born on February
8th, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She was the youngest out of 8 children. Her
parents worked for a group of sharecroppers and dairy farmers. When she was
8 years old her brother shot her in the eye with with a bb gun which left her
blind in one eye. After that she felt ugly and that people were scared of her.
However, that was not entirely true with her teachers.
Alice
graduated from Spelmar High school in 1965 as a Valedictorian. She later moved
to Mississippi to go to college at Sarah Lawrence University, class of 1969
. Alice was a quite, shy women after she graduated from college. She lived alone
in a small apartment in Mississippi for several years until she met her soon
to be husband.) He moved into the apartment Alice Walker had purchased. They
lived together for many years Her husband, Mel Leventhal, encouraged her to
start writing different
varieties of writing. She experimented with all the possible writing categories
but adored poetry the most. She spent 2 years writing poetry for fun but then
found poems where not her specialty. Her specialty was writeing biographies
and novles dealing with rasism and womens rights. She decited she wanted to
help the world in a way which was by being invoved in the Cival Rights Movement.
She was very interested in making a difference in the world and thats what she
did. She stood up for her rights and made a move in front of the police. Luckaly,
she didnt get arrested but got a big fine. She didnt do anything like it again.
In
1967, Alice wrote a book called "The Third LIfe" based on the life
of Grange Copeland. It was her first publicaly publishd book. It was a New York
Times best seller until 1969.
Alice
continued writing books from 1979 through 1982. Then she stopped writing and
starting Equal rights progam. In 1980, she went on strike for abusive situations.
She did that for one year.
On
May 13th, 1972, Her first daughter, Rebbeca Walker, was born. She is now 30
years of age.
Alice
has won two American Book Awards in 3 years.
Alice
lives at home in Pennsilvania with her husband and her dog, Mandy.
