Alice Walker

Description:

A full-length portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer draws on letters, journals, and interviews to discuss her birth into a family of Georgia sharecroppers, the childhood accident that left her blind in one eye and sympathetic to human suffering, her activism during the 1960s, and her literary achievements.

subjects: Écrivains noirs américains,  Biographies,  Écrivains américains,  American Authors,  African American authors,  Authors, American,  Biography,  Walker, alice, 1944-,  Authors, biography,  LGBTQ biography and memoir,  LGBTQ literary criticism,  collection:judy_grahn_award=finalist

People: Alice Walker (1944-)

Times: 20th century