高级英语 Unit4 Alice Walker 生平.docVIP

Unit 4 Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. [?e?,kr?p?]??美佃农 When Alice Walker was years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident. In high school, Alice Walker was valedictorian??[,v?lidikt?:ri?n]??致告别辞者,告别演说者of her class, and that achievement, coupled with??加上,外加 a rehabilitation??.[,ri:h?,b?l?te???n]??复兴 scholarship made it possible for her to go to Spelman, a college for black women in Atlanta, Georgia. After spending two years at Spelman, she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and during her junior year traveled to Africa as an exchange student. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. After finishing college, Walker lived for a short time in New York, then from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s, she lived in Tougaloo, Mississippi, during which time she had a daughter, Rebecca, in 1969. Alice Walker was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and in the 1990s she is still an involved activist. She has spoken for the womens movement,the anti-apartheid? [?nti?pɑ:θaid]??反种族隔离的 movement, for the anti-nuclear movement, and so on. Alice Walker started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press, in 1984. She currently resides in Northern California with her dog, Marley. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color Purple. Among her numerous awards and honors are the Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment?? [enda?m?nt]??(经常的)资助,捐助;捐助的财物等for the Arts, the Rosenthal[r?uz?ntɑ:l]?? (陶瓷)罗森塔尔制造的Award from the National Institute of Arts Letters, a nomination for the National Book Award, a Radcliffe[r?dklif]?拉德克利夫(姓氏) Institute Fellowship, a Merrill Fellowship, a Guggenheim [ɡuɡ?nhaim]??格瓦拉的追随者Fellowship, and the Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswomans Club of New York. She also has received the Tow