Alice Walker Alice Walker is an African-American novelist and poet; born in Eatonton, Ga. Her parents, Minnie Lou Grant and Willie Lee Walker, were both sharecroppers. She was raised in a shack minutes from Flannery O'Conner's house, "Andalusia". Blinded in one eye from an accidental gunshot wound at the young age of eight, Walker fell into somewhat of a depression. She secluded herself from the other children, and as she explains, "I no longer felt …showed first 75 words of 590 total…

…showed last 75 words of 590 total…been trying to answer it for so long" Walker was also influenced by Zora Neale Hurston's works. Walker was quoted as saying; "My feeling is that Zora Neale Hurston is probably one of the most misunderstood, least appreciated writers of this century. Which is a pity. She is great. A writer of courage, and incredible humor, with poetry in every line.” Note: (She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for her writing of the “Color Purple”.)