Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Walker (born on February 9th, 1944), is a écrivaine and a militant American feminist.

Biography

Born with Eatonton, Georgia, the United States, Walker has origins Afro-américain E, Cherokee, Scottish and Irish. It starts its studies with the College Spelman (Atlanta, Georgia) and is graduate in 1965 with the College Sarah Lawrence (Yonkers, New York). She was married in Mel Leventhal of 1967 with 1976. Together, they had a girl, Rebecca Walker, which becomes also écrivaine and militant (see).

She writes Romance , Nouvelle S, Essai S and Poème S. These writings emphasize the fight of the coloured women against the Racisme, the Sexisme and the widespread Violence in the american company. She proclaims openly Bisexuel it.

She composed its first collection of poetries at the time of her last year to the College Sarah Lawrence. She suspends her activity of writing when she settles with Leventhal in the the Mississippi and that she joined the Movement of the Civic right .

She takes again her career of écrivaine when she adheres to ms Magazine .

In addition to the news and poems, she writes its first novel, The Third Life off Barn Copeland , in 1970. In 1976, appears Meridian ; this book tells the fight of the militants for the civic rights in the South, and Walker reports some of his own experiences there.

In 1982, it publishes the Color crimson which will become its novel headlight. It is about the history of a black young woman who fights at the same time against the racism of the White and the patriarchate of the Blacks. This novel meets a great success in all the communities. It will be adapted to the cinema in 1985 and musical comedy in 2005 with Broadway.

It engages in policy partly under the influence of Howard Zinn which was one of its professors to the Spelman College. It militated a long time in the years 1960 in the movement for the civic rights, and it continues to defend the equal rights for all.

It is illustrated in the defense of the environment, feminism, the protection of the animals and made countryside against the genital mutilations of the women (see Excision and Infibulation). It engaged also for the cuban cause, in particular against the embargo, and went on several occasions to Cuba.

Rewards

the Color crimson receives the Prix Pulitzer and the American Book Award.
the news Kindered Spirits appeared in August 1985 receives the O. Henry Award 1986.
For the whole of its work, it receives Lillian Smith Award of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rosenthal Award of the Institute National off Arts & Letters, Membre of honor of Radcliffe Institute, Merrill, and Guggenheim, Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism of Newswoman' S Club of New York.

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