Alice Walker is an American author, feminist, and social activist best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple." She was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, into a sharecropper family. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, focusing on racism, gender and class disparities, and women's rights. After graduation, she moved to Mississippi and became involved in the Civil Rights Movement, drawing on these experiences in her writing. Walker published her first book, "Once," a collection of poems, in 1968. In 1982, "The Color Purple" explored African-American women's struggles in the rural South and won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award, making Walker the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer. She has written several other novels, short story collections, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her work examines societal issues, particularly those faced by African-American women. She has been an active advocate for civil rights and feminism, and in 2020 was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
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