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This full‑length portrait of Alice Walker draws on letters, journals, and interviews to explore her early life in a Georgia sharecropper family, the childhood accident that left her blind in one eye and deepened her empathy for suffering, her vigorous activism during the 1960s, and her subsequent literary accomplishments. The narrative illuminates how Walker’s experiences shaped her powerful writing and her role as a pivotal figure in African‑American and LGBTQ literary circles.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Evelyn C. White
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