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Built-in in rural Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944, Alice Westalker was the youngest of

eight children. When she was 8 years old, she was blinded in 1 eye by a

BB shot by one of her brothers. Although she eventually had surgery on her

scar and became valedictorian of her high school, she endured teasing and

low cocky-esteem throughout her babyhood. She received a scholarship to

Spelman College, a traditionally black college in Georgia, and left home with

three things given to her past her mother, Minnie: a sewing machine to

encourage cocky-sufficiency, a suitcase to nudge her curious spirit, and a

typewriter to nurture her budding writing talents. Walker eventually left

Spelman to attend Sarah Lawrence College in New York, from which she

graduated in 1965.

Walker is a prolific writer, working in a diverseness of genres including children's

literature, poetry, nonfiction, and screenwriting. She is best known for her

novels and brusk stories, in which she gives vox to a doubly oppressed

group: African American women. Her novel The Color Purple (1982) is

perhaps her well-nigh well-known, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and inspiring

a film adaptation.

A tireless crusader on behalf of women, much of Walker'due south fiction speaks out

against domestic violence, sexual abuse, racism, and genital mutilation, a

ritual practiced past several native African cultures. Her concerns differ from

ordinary "feminist" concerns, and she calls herself a "womanist," committed to

freeing women from all forms of oppression. Due westalker'south fiction has been the

subject of controversy, considering some critics believe she depicts men too

harshly (such equally in The Color Imperial) and criticizes practices that she does

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