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Alice Walker February 9,1944- General introduction novelist, poet, essayist, educator. biographer, editor, short-story writer. activist on environmental, feminist and womanist causes, issues of economic justice. Biographical Introduction Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Georgia, the eighth and youngest child to a poor sharecropper family. When she was eight years old, she was blinded in her right eye while playing with her brothers. After graduating from high school in 1961, she studied first at Spelman college in Atlanta and then at Sarah Lawrence in New York. Upon graduation from Sarah Lawrence in 1965 she took part in the Civil Rights movement. From 1976 on, she has been teaching creative writing and black studies at Jackson State College, Tougaloo College, Wellesley College, University of Massachusetts. And she currently resides in Northern California. The theme of her works rape violence isolation troubled relationships multi-generational perspectives（多代的角度） sexism and racism Major works 1965-“To Hell With Dying” (short stories)（地狱和死亡） 1973-In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women ( a collection short stories) 1976-Meridian《子午线》(novel) 1982-The Color Purple (novel)（紫色） 1989-The Temple of My Familiar (novel)（我熟悉的殿) 1998-By the Light of My Father‘s Eyes (novel)(父亲的微笑之光) The Color Purple Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on female black life during the 1930s in the Southern United States, addressing the numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. * The Color Purple The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Awad The National Book Critics Circle *