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Everyday Use by Alice Walker

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Name: Alice Malsenior Walker
Birth Date: February 9, 1944
Place of Birth: Eatonton, Georgia, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Alice Malsenior Walker
1316 words, approx. 4.4 pages
Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Alice Walker (born 1944) was best known for her stories about black women who achieve heroic stature within the confines of their ordinary day-to-day lives. Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia,...
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Biography of Alice (Malsenior) Walker
13406 words, approx. 44.7 pages
[This entry was updated by Donna Haisty Winchell (Clemson University) from her entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 277-292.] Alice Walker knows firsthand the social and political consequences of being a black woman...
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Biography of Alice Walker
10102 words, approx. 33.7 pages
Walker was born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, about seventy-five miles southeast of Atlanta. She was the youngest of eight children, five boys and three girls, all of whom lived in a three-or four-room house in the country. Her father, Willie Le...
 


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Everyday Use Information
972 words, approx. 3 pages
"Everyday Use" is a widely studied and much-anthologized short story by Alice Walker. It was first published in 1973 as part of Walker's short story collection, <i>In Love and Trouble</i>. The story is told in the first person by the "Mama" (Mrs....


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Thallium confirmed in U.S. women
3/10/2007: 255 words, approx. 1 pages
Tests confirmed Friday that two American women hospitalized after they became ill on a trip to Russia were poisoned by thallium, but the women believe it was accidental, their lawyer and the hospital said.Dr. Marina Kovalevsky, 49, and her daughter, Yana, 26, remained in fair...
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Tests confirm thallium poisoning of U.S. women who took trip to Russia
3/10/2007: 255 words, approx. 1 pages
Tests confirmed Friday that two American women hospitalized after they became ill on a trip to Russia were poisoned by thallium, but the women believe it was accidental, their lawyer and the hospital said.Dr. Marina Kovalevsky, 49, and her daughter, Yana, 26, remained in fair...
 


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