Alphabet Authors ~ W is for Walker

I found this idea on Simon's blog @ Stuck in a Book. He picks an author for each letter of the alphabet, sharing which of their books he's read, which I ones he owns, how he came across them etc.

There are several authors I like who begin with the letter W (Mika Waltari, Jan Weiler, Colson Whitehead, P.G. Wodehouse) but I absolutely love Alice Walker and believe she deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature. Therefore, she is my author for the letter W.

Walker, Alice 

- "The Color Purple" - 1982
- "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" - 1983
- "Now is the Time to Open your Heart" - 2004
- "The Temple of My Familiar" - 1989
- "The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart" - 2000

Facts about Alice Walker:
Born    February 9, 1944 (age 81), Eatonton, Georgia, USA as Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker 

Married Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal in 1967, they have one daughter (Rebecca who is also a writer) and divorced in 1976.

She received some honorary degrees and fellowships plus a lot of literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "The Color Purple". 

Besides being a brilliant author, she is also a social activist, i.e. for the Civil Rights Movement, animal activism and pacifism.

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This is part of an ongoing series where I will write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here.