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,...

[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...

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...

LAURENCE CHOLLET The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-16-1995 CRIME REALLY DOES PAY By LAURENCE CHOLLET Date: 04-16-1995, Sunday Section: LIFESTYLE / ENTERTAINMENT Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Column: BOOK REPORTS What crime writer wrote the legendary first sentence, "The first time I...

In January, as I reported last month, our plant and its employees were the victims of an "armed" robbery. I reflected on what I could have done to prevent it, and found that perhaps I have been so preoccupied with environmental issues that...