Alice Walker – American writer of the 20th–21st century, author of The Color Purple and Meridian, Pulitzer Prize winner. She gave voice to African American women, addressing race, gender, and freedom, blending realism with spirituality.
📖 The Color Purple also won the National Book Award. 🎬 Adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg and later a Broadway musical. 👁 Lost sight in one eye during childhood, shaping her worldview. ✊ Active in the civil rights movement. 🪶 Coined the term “womanist” for African American women’s identity. 🌍 Travelled across Africa in search of cultural roots. 📚 Engaged in feminist and anti-war causes. 👩👧 Her daughter, Rebecca Walker, became a writer and feminist too. 😮 Helped recover forgotten women authors for the literary canon. 🙂 Once joked she writes “not for fame, but to save my soul.”