Guide Note:
Alice Walker is the Pulitzer Prize winning American author of The Color Purple. She is also a Human Rights activist, especially in the Anti-War and the Anti-FGM movements. The Color Purple was made into a motion picture in 1985.
Fast Facts:
- Born: February 9th, 1944
- Birthplace: Eatonton, Georgia
- Has one daughter, Rebecca Walker (nee Leventhal)
- Is a vegetarian
- Is the first African American woman to win Pulitzer Prize
- She is a Womanist
- Found Zora Neale Hurston's grave site and placed marker on it
