An African American writer and activist Alice Walker commenced publishing her fiction and poetry through the latter many years of the Black Arts movement in the 1960’s. Born in 1944 in Eatonton, Ga, to sharecropper mom and dad,  she realized racism and poverty only too properly and with works expressing the need for the tackling of such troubles she has turn into one particular of the ideal-known and most remarkably revered writers from the U.S. together with these kinds of writers as Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor , normally associated with the publish-1970s surge in African American women’s literature.  

Her activism started off just after being educated at Spelman College or university and Sarah Lawrence Higher education, where by Walker, in a graduation speech spoke out in opposition to the silence of that institution’s curriculum to African-American society and history. Active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the South, she applied her have and others’ ordeals as materials for her searing evaluation of politics and black-white relations in her novel Meridian (1976).

Starting with her initially novel, The 3rd Everyday living of Grange Copeland, Walker has concentrated on these kinds of concerns as sexual and racial realities inside of black communities as very well as the unavoidable connections between family members and modern society. For exposing the previous, she has been criticized by some African-American male critics and theorists for exploring the latter, she has been awarded several prizes whilst winning the hearts and minds of numerous black …