The couple had a daughter, Rebecca in 1969, divorcing 9 years later. This brought them a steady stream of harassment and even murderous threats from the Ku Klux Klan. They became the first legally married inter-racial couple in Mississippi. In 1965, Walker met and later married Mel Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. Continuing the activism that she participated in during her college years, Walker returned to the South where she became involved with voter registration drives, campaigns for welfare rights, and children's programs in Mississippi. civil rights movement in part due to the influence of activist Howard Zinn, who was one of her professors at Spelman College. Walker refers to this incident in her book Warrior Marks, a chronicle of female genital mutilation in Africa, and uses it to illustrate the sacrificial marks women bear that allow them to be "warriors" against female suppression.Īfter high school, Walker went to Spelman College in Atlanta on full scholarship in 1961 and later transferred up north to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, graduating in 1965.
In the book, White suggests this event had a large impact on Walker, especially when a white doctor in town swindled her parents out of $250 they paid to repair her injury. She became blinded in one eye as a result. White talks about an incident when Walker, who was eight year old at the time, was injured when her brother accidentally shot her in the eye with a BB gun. In her book Alice Walker: A Life, author Evelyn C. Although she grew up in Georgia, she has stated that she often felt displaced there. As well as being African American, her family has Cherokee, Scottish and Irish lineage. Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of sharecroppers. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple. Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim FellowshipĪlice Malsenior Walker is an American author and feminist. Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for theĪrts The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute ofĪrts & Letters The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Awards-National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, 1983 The.
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