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Names: Ally Huang&Jessica Sun

Biography of Alice Walker Early life Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. Alice has a permanent injury in her right eye—shot by a BB pellet. She attended segregated schools, and went to Spleman College, where she participated in the civil rights movement. She involved as an activist who spoke for women rights , antiapartheid and against female genital mutilation movements.

Family life

Major accomplishment

Alice’s parents were sharecropper who worked hard to support her and her 7 siblings. After she grew up, she married Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a white civil rights lawyer. They became the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi.

(1967) Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship&The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters (1973) The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1978) The Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983) The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel “The Colour Purple”&National Book Award for Fiction for “The Colour Purple” (1985) O. Henry Award for Kindred Spirits (1995) Honorary Degree from the California Institute of the Arts (1997) Named by the American Humanist Association as “Humanist of the Year” (2001) Walker inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. (2006) Induction to the California Hall of Fame in The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts (2007) Domestic Human Rights Award from Global Exchange&Walker’s archives were opened to the public at Emory University (2010) The LennonOno Grant for Peace Award.

Interesting facts Alice had once thought of herself as an ugly girl. She felt depressed. But she chose novels and poetries as entertainment. Later, she developed her writing skills and published many novels and poetries, “The colour purple” was one of her most famous literacy works.