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Alice Walker born on February 9, year 1944 is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In year 1982, she became the first African American woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel named The Color Purple. During her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and collections of short stories, twelve nonfiction books, and collections of essays and poetry.

Alice Malsenior Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, a rural farming town, the daughter of Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah Grant. Walker’s parents were part owners, although her mother also worked as a seamstress to earn extra money. Walker, the youngest of eight children, started school at East Putnam Consolidated when she was just four years old.

When Walker was eight years old, she suffered an injury to her right eye after one of her brothers fired a BB gun. Because her family did not have access to a car, Ella Walker was unable to obtain immediate medical attention, causing her to become permanently blind in that eye. After her eye injury, Ella Walker began to read and write. The scar tissue was removed when Walker was 14 years old, but a mark still remains. She is described in her essay Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self.

Because schools in Eatonton were segregated, Walker attended the only high school available to black students: Butler Baker High School. She there she finished at the top of her class and enrolled at Spelman College in 1961 after receiving a full scholarship from the State of Georgia for the highest academic achievement of her class.

She found that two of her professors, Howard Zinn and Staughton Lynd, were great mentors to her while she was at Spelman, but they both transferred two years later. Walker was offered another scholarship, this time from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, and after the firing of his Spelman professor, Howard Zinn, Walker accepted the offer. Walker became pregnant early in her senior year and miscarried; This experience, as well as the suicidal thoughts that followed, inspired much of the poetry in Eleven, Walker’s first collection of poems. Walker graduated from the Sarah Lawrence College in the year 1965.

In year 1965, Walker met Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights attorney. They were married on March 17, year 1967 in the New York City. Later that year, the couple moved to Jackson, Mississippi, becoming the first legally married multiracial couple in Mississippi since miscegenation laws were introduced in the state. They were sadly harassed and threatened by the whites, including Ku Klux Klan. The couple had a daughter, Rebecca, in year 1969. Walker and her husband divorced in the year 1976.

In the late 1970s, Walker moved to Northern California. In 1984, along with fellow writer Robert L. Allen, she founded Wild Tree Press, a feminist publishing house in Anderson Valley, California. Walker legally added “Tallulah Kate” to her name in 1994 in honor of her mother, Minnie Tallulah Grant, and her paternal grandmother, Tallulah. Minnie Tallulah Grant’s grandmother, Tallulah, was a Cherokee.

Walker has claimed that he had a romantic relationship with singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman in the mid-1990s, saying “It was delicious and lovely and wonderful, I thoroughly enjoyed it and was totally in love with her, but it was nothing to anyone but the our.” Chapman has not publicly commented on the existence of a relationship and maintains a strict separation between her private and public life.

Walker’s spirituality has influenced some of her best-known novels, including The Color Purple. She has written about her interest in Transcendental Meditation. Walker’s exploration of religion in much of her writing draws from a literary tradition that includes writers such as Zora Neale Hurston.

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Meridian Hill is a young woman at an Atlanta college trying to find her place in the 1960s revolution for racial and social equality. She discovers the boundaries that she will not cross for the cause, but despite her decision not to follow the path of some of her peers, she makes significant sacrifices to further her faith.

Working on a campaign to the register African-American voters, Meridian cares deeply about people she visits, and while her colleagues quit and move into the comfortable homes, she continues to work in Deep South despite a crippling illness. Meridian’s nonviolent methods, while apparently less radical than the methods of others, are proving effective in furthering her beliefs.

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Meridian, Alice Walker’s book, is in many ways a gripping and moving book. First of all, she represents the twisted hearts and minds of black people (as opposed to white racists) living in the 1960s South. Meridian is a young black woman who is a little crazy but still totally engaging and entertaining. .

Meridian is very different from other people: she feels things more acutely, more sensitively, and more strongly than other people. Her emotions – anger, hate, pain, suffering – are all portrayed with amazing clarity. This book is like a poem in a way, and very different from any other book she’s ever read, almost as if the story is a series of dream sequences.

Meridian, a civil rights activist, is terrified that her people and her race will be dehumanized and lose her souls. I disagree with one reviewer who gave it one star and criticized it for not having “growing action”. The book has rising action, conflict, and literary techniques, they’re just told in a different way – this book isn’t in a standard chapter form, but is an entirely emotion based book, told in three parts, by Meridian, her black boy , her ex-boyfriend Truman Held, and her northern white best friend, Lynne.

The books clearly convey that all three people are missing parts of themselves, parts of humanity that have been desensitized in the fight for civil rights, and hatred has shifted from whites to blacks. All of these people are shown as just young adults, none of them all bad or all good, just trying to survive in this turbulent age.

The ending is bittersweet, not entirely happy, but not desperate either. This book is more about a people journey than anything else. It focuses more on characterization than plot: the events seem to matter less than the feelings, thoughts, and passions of Meridian, Lynne, and Truman. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to read about the worries, concerns, and journeys of the soul.

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