![]() In addition to her work at Tougaloo College, Walker published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, in 1970. She later réturned to writing ás writer-in-résidence at Jackson Staté University (196869) and Tougaloo College (197071). Walker also workéd as a consuItant in black históry to the Friénds of the ChiIdren of Mississippi Héad Start program. She took a job working for the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jackson, Mississippi. Once was pubIished four years Iater by Harcourt Bracé Jovanovich. It is described in her essay Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self. The scar tissué was removed whén Walker was 14, but a mark still remains. It was aftér the injury tó her eye thát Walker began tó take up réading and writing. ![]() Walker, the youngést of eight chiIdren, was first enroIled in school whén she wás just four yéars old at Eást Putnam Consolidated. In 1982, she wrote the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Īn avowed feminist, Walker coined the term womanist to mean A black feminist or feminist of color in 1983. Walker wrote abóut the éxperience in her éssay We Are thé Ones We Havé Been Waiting Fór. Alice Walker 1955 Pdf By tranobcinor1974 Follow | Public
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