Who is Alice Walker?
Her full name is Alice Malsenior Walker. She was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She was the eight and youngest child of Minnie Tallulah Grant Walker and Willie Lee Walker. Her parents were poor sharecroppers. In the summer of 1952 Alice Walker is blinded in her right eye due to a BB gun pellet while she was playing “cowboys and indian” with her brother. When graduating high school in 1961, she was her school’s valedictorian and was the prom queen that year. She went to Spelman College i What did Alice Walker do to make her a famous writer? It all started during her senior year in Sarah Lawrence, where she realized that she was pregnant. She was so frightened because she didn’t know how to tell her parents. Walker thought about committing suicide at one time, but with help from a classmate she was able to have a safe abortion. While recovering from the depression, she wrote a short story titled “To Hell with Dying”. Her teacher Muriel Ruykeyser sent the story to publishe
