All about Alice Walker

Alice Walker is a African-American novelist and poet most famous for authoring The Color Purple. Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She also took part in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Alice's most popular work is the novel "The Color Purple" which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Some fun facts, ( not quite fun, but lets call it "interesting" ) is that Walker married an activist called, Melvyn Leventhal in 1967. They had a daughter called, Rebecca Walker, but they divorced 1976. A famous quote from Alice Walker is, "Don't wait around for others to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."