Alice Walker is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple. She is also a human rights activist, especially in the Anti-War and Anti-FGM movements.

• 1970: The Third Life of Grange Copeland
• 1973: Everyday Use
• 1973: In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women
• 1973: Roselily
• 1976: Meridian (novel)
• 1982: The Color Purple
• 1982: You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories
• 1983: Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
• 1986: Am I Blue?
• 1988: To Hell With Dying
• 1989: The Temple of My Familiar
• 1991: Finding the Green Stone
• 1992: Possessing the Secret of Joy
• 1994: The Complete Stories
• 1998: By The Light of My Father's Smile
• 2000: The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
• 2005: Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart

• "Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week." - Alice Walker

• "Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence." - Alice Walker

• "It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all." - Alice Walker

• "I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence." - Alice Walker

• "...For me, Black women are the most fascinating creations in the world." - Alice Walker

• February 9, 1944: Born Eastonton, Georgia

• 1952: Accidentally blinded in right eye

• 1961: Attends Spelman College

• 1963: Transfers to Sarah Lawrence College

• 1965: Graduates from Sarah Lawrence, joins rural South voter registration drive

• 1967: Marries Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal

• 1969: Daughter Rebecca born

• 1970: Receives NEA Discovery Award

• 1972: Teaches at Wellesley College and begins first Woman's Studies course

• 1974: Wins Rosenthal Foundation Award for In Love and Trouble

• 1976: Divorces Mel Levethal amicably

• 1983: Wins Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple and National Book Award for Hardcover Fiction

• 1984: Wins Lillian Smith Book Award for In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose

• 1985: The Steven Spielberg movie The Color Purple released

• 1986: Wins O. Henry Award for short story Kindred Spirit

• 1993: Traveled to Africa with Pratibha Parmar to film Warrior Marks

• 1996: Alice Walker letter to President Clinton

• 2000: Receives Library of Congress honors

• 2006: Inducted into the California Hall of Fame

• 1991: Finding the Green Stone

• 2002: Langston Hughes: American Poet

• 2006: There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me

• 2007: Why War Is Never a Good Idea illustrated by Stefano Vitale

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