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...

Sixteen high school students have been suspended for drinking wine while on a school-sponsored exchange trip to France, a country famous for its fermented grape beverages. "We have a strict policy against alcohol and drug use," said Bob Spence, East Troy School District...

THE MANURE really hit the fan when French magazine Lyon Mag described Beaujolais not just as fermented fruit juice, but, worse, as "vin de merde". Prompting this criticism was the execrable 2001 Beaujolais vintage, 15 million bottles-worth of which was distilled or turned into...