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Lesson IV;Alice Walker;;;About the author;Everyday Use for your grandmama;Background Information;Walker, Alice(born February 9, 1944) (1944- ), American writer, poet , critic, and apologist for black women Alice Walker was born in the rural community of Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944. Most of Eatontons residents were tenant farmers. When she was eight years old, Walker was blinded in one eye when her brother accidentally shot her with a BB gun. Having grown self-conscious as a result of her injury, Alice withdrew to writing poetry. ;Alice Walker began her college education at Spelman in 1961 but transferred to Sarah Lawrence in 1963. After graduating in 1965, she went to Mississippi as a civil rights activist. There she met Melvyn Leventhal, a white civil rights attorney, whom she married in 1967. The Leventhals were the first legally married interracial couple to live in Jackson, Mississippi. They divorced in 1976. ;Walkers experiences during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence, including undergoing an abortion and making a trip to Africa, provided many of the books themes, such as love, suicide, civil rights, and Africa;Walker’s writing career began with the publication of a volume of poetry (Once )in 1968, which was followed by a number of novels, short stories, critical essays and more poetry. Now she is regarded as one of the most prominent writers in American literature and most forceful representative of women’s literature and black literature. ;She has received numerous awards for her writing, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Award, an O. Henry Award, an American Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Walker is the first black female writer who won the Pulitzer Prize in U.S.A.;;Alice Walker’s works;The Color Purple (1982) --was praised for its strong characterizations and the clear, musical quality of its colloquial language. (American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize );Walkers other works;Alice Walker’s works Poss