Alice Walker

Alice Walker (1944–) was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of sharecroppers. Blinded in one eye by a BB gun accident at age eight, she found solace in reading and writing, eventually attending Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College. She became active in the civil rights movement in Mississippi, where she registered voters and worked alongside figures like Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. Her early poetry and fiction drew on these experiences. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Color Purple.