Sunday, February 9, 2020

GREAT LIVES : ALICE WALKER

ALICE WALKER, FAMOUS AMERICAN NOVELIST, WAS BORN ON THIS DAY : FEB.9 IN 1944

Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. 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. She also wrote the novels Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland.

She has won many laurels, some of which are: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, PEN/O. Henry Award

Her books have been made into movies. They are:  The Color Purple, Howard Zinn: You Can´t Be Neutral on a Moving Train.

Grateful thanks to Wikipedia and Google. 

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