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The document provides biographical information about author Alice Walker and summarizes her major literary works, including winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 1982 novel The Color Purple. It details her upbringing in rural Georgia, education, marriage, and publications spanning poetry collections, novels, essays, and children's books from 1968 to 1992.

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Introduction About The Author

The document provides biographical information about author Alice Walker and summarizes her major literary works, including winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 1982 novel The Color Purple. It details her upbringing in rural Georgia, education, marriage, and publications spanning poetry collections, novels, essays, and children's books from 1968 to 1992.

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SEM-V, C-11, Unit- 3

The Color Purple

Alice Walker.

Introduction about Alice Walker

Alice Walker was born in 1944, in rural Georgia, the youngest child of a sharecropper (small
farmer). When she was eight years old, she met with a traumatic accident while playing with two of
her older brothers; a copper pellet hit her in the eye. After the accident Alice changed from being a
brave, self-confident child, interested in doing grown-up things, into a shy, solemn, and solitary
(lonely) girl.

Walker immersed herself in her studies, was consistently excellent in them, and after graduation
won a scholarship to Spellman College, a small prestigious black women's school in Atlanta,
Georgia. After two years, Walker left to attend Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York
and was graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1965. There she majored in literature and studied
extensively in Latin poetry and history.

In 1968, Walker married Mel Leventhal, a human rights lawyer, and they had a daughter, Rebecca,
before they were divorced in the early 1970s.

Literary works and Prizes:

• In 1968 she published a collection of poetry, Once: Poems.


• In 1970 she published her first novel, “The Third Life of Grange Copeland.”
• In 1976, Walker’s second novel “Meridian”, was published which speaks about the story
of a woman fighting for civil rights in the American South,.
• In 1982 she published her third novel, “The Color Purple.”
• In 1983 she published a collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens.
• In 1984 released a collection of poems, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful.
• In 1989 she has also published the “Temple of My Familiar”.
• In 1992 “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, along with children's books and non-fiction work.
• In 1982, Walker received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her third novel, The Color
Purple.

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