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...

A New Hampshire teenager's yearbook photo has been rejected, because she's holding a flower. Merrimack High School student Melissa Morin's senior photograph featured her and a small red flower. School officials, however, said the picture is not going to make it in the yearbook because...

A foul-smelling orchid that flourishes only in Yosemite National Park and was first collected in 1923 is a distinct species, scientists announced Monday after re-evaluating the flower.Botanist Alison Colwell said the species' minute, tennis-ball yellow flowers weren't what first led her to it, but rather...

With its $25 billion buyout in legal limbo, Sallie Mae has been contacted by other investors potentially interested in acquiring the student lender, whose business has been hurt by the uncertainty.Sallie Mae, formally known as SLM Corp., on Thursday said it swung to a third-quarter...