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          A novelist, poet, and social activist.

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        2. Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker, an American novelist, poet, and social activist, was born on February 9, She became the first African-American.
        3. Alice Walker is an acclaimed African American novelist, poet, essayist and activist born in in Georgia.
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          5. Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker, an American novelist, poet, and social activist, was born on February 9, She became the first African-American....

          Alice Walker

          Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, poet, and activist.

          She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender. She is best known for the novel The Color Purple (1982). She won the National Book Award[1] and the Pulitzer Prize for the novel.[2]

          Early life

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          Walker is an African American who was born in Eatonton, Georgia.

          In her life and art, Walker's pursuit of the freedom to love, to be, to revel, and to rest has led her not only to express life's passion and prom ise but also.

          She is the youngest of eight children. Her parents were Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. Her father, who was, in her words, "wonderful at math but a terrible farmer," earned only $300 a year from sharecropping and dairy farming.

          Her mother added to the family income by working as a maid.[3] She worked 11 hours a day for USD $17 per week to help pay for Alice to attend college.[4]

          In 1952, Walker was accidentally hit in the right eye by a BB gun fired by one of her brothers.[5] Because the family had no car, the Wal