This page contains several links to web sites about Alice Walker. Walker is an African American writer, novelist and poet; born in Eatonton, Ga. Her parents, Minnie Lou Grant and Willie Lee Walker, were both sharecroppers. She was raised in a shack minutes from Flannery O'Conner's house, Andalusia. Blinded in one eye from an accidental gunshot wound at the young age of eight, Walker fell into somewhat of a depression. She secluded herself from the other children , and as she explains, "I no longer felt like the little girl I was. I felt old, and because I felt I was unpleasant to look at, filled with shame. I retreated into solitude, and read stories and began to write poems." (Christian, 56).
If you know of any Alice Walker sites on the web, not included here, email AWARE with the URL.

  • Alice Walker

  • Alice Walker's Chronological Life

  • Bibliography

  • The Color Purple

  • Articles by Alice Walker

  • Writing with Alice Walker

  • Letter from Alice Walker to President Clinton

  • Alice Walker

  • Astrid H. Roemer meets Alice Walker in Amsterdam
    Literature and History written by and on African Americans

    Return to AWARE main page.

    LinkExchange
    LinkExchange Member