Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Social Science
| Like so many characters in her fiction, Alice Walker was born into a family of sharecroppers in Eaton, Georgia. She began Spelman College on a scholarship and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. While still in college, Walker became active in the civil rights movement and continued her involvement after she ....[more] |