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...

When you can control a [person's] thinking you don't have to worry about [that person's] actions. --Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933) ... never would I be able to write a book about my life, or even a pamphlet,...

Byline: CHARLOTTE GILL A SURROGATE mother spoke yesterday of her desperate battle to win back the daughter she gave away 13 years ago. June Whittaker had a baby for Evelyn and Patrick Knightly so they could fulfil their dream of having a...