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Alice Walker

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“Our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see.” From The Third Life of Grange Copeland [1970]

Alice Walker is author of the Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Color Purple. Ms. Walker grew up in Georgia, and graduated as the valedictorian of her class. She went on to graduate with a degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Before earning her living as a writer, Ms. Walker was a social worker, a teacher, and she was a civil rights activist. Ms. Walker married a Jewish man, and their marriage was the first legal interracial union in Mississippi. During her career, she has published over 20 works, and she continues to write. Her website lists a poem she wrote in 2018.

To learn more check out the following sites:

Alice Walker’s official website

Alice Walker on Biography.com 

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Sources:

Biography.com. (2018, February 27). Alice Walker Biography. Retrieved from: https://www.biography.com/people/alice-walker-9521939  

O’Brien, G., ed. (2012). Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 18^th ed. New York: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 860.