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...

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38 318 Nach zahlreichen Förderpreisen für ihre Kurz- und Episodenfilme wagte sich Erica von Moeller, Absolventin der Kölner Kunsthochschule für Medien, an ihren ersten abendfüllenden Spielfilm und ins Kino. Ihr zur Seite stand die renommierte Kamerafrau Sophie Maintigneux, die u.a. schon mit Eric...