Alice Walker
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eaton, Georgia . She was theyoungest of eight children. Her parents were sharecroppers. Walker grew up in a racialarea . In 1952 Alice Walker brother accidential shot her in the right eye with a BB gun.Alice eye was disfigured and made her feel ugly, taking away her confidence. She wasvery shy and not out going. When she turned fourteen, her brother paid for her to havean operation to correct the problem. Following the operation she was able to gain herconfidence back. In her senior year of high school, she became
In 1966 she received her writing grant. I believe Alice Walkerhad a dramatic change around she published "The Color Purple" which talks about howtwo women love same man . Between the years 1966-1981 she went threw a lot racism,marriage having children ,being depressed , because she was a women and black. How he took advantage over both of them a beat them andsex. Plus she allalready had a academic scholarship. Won many awards like AmericanAcademy , Institution 's and letters all sorts of things but in 1982. I believe thisbook should why she didn't like black men because how the attack. In 1967 she wrote "The ThirdLife of Grange Copeland " . But Quincy Jones told her that he wasa good director so in 1985. In1985 Steven Spielberg wanted to make a movie out of it . Aftersophomore year , Walker received another scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College.
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