Alice Walker

1944

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Biography

Alice Walker is an American novelist, poet, and activist, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Color Purple'. Born in 1944 in Georgia, Walker grew up in a family of sharecroppers and became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Throughout her career, she has been a voice for social justice and women's rights, often addressing issues of race, gender, and class in her works.