Born: 9 February 1944, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
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Novelist, short story writer, poet and social activist Alice Walker became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1983, when she won for The Color Purple. The novel has been adapted several times, including on film and as a Broadway musical. She has published 17 novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.
Walker has been active in support of causes like feminism, civil rights, pacifism and animal rights. She has also been criticised as transphobic and anti-semitic. Walker was blinded in one eye as a child when her brother shot her with a BB gun.