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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Crabby? Unsatisfied careerwise? Knees hurty? Spiritually angsty? Love life askew? Well, then, why haven’t you tried yoga? Who dares voice complaint to a friend these days? Instead of a sympathetic ear, you’ll just get a gift certificate to a beginner’s class. All over New...