Alice Walker is a poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in 1944 in a small town in Georgia. Her father was a sharecropper and her mother was a maid. Walker has said that the poem “Women” was written for her mother.
Alice Walker, in full Alice Malsenior Walker, (born February 9, 1944, Eatonton, Georgia, U.S.), American writer whose novels, short stories, and poems are noted for their insightful treatment of African American culture. Her novels, most notably The Color Purple (1982), focus particularly on women.
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