| 1944 | Feb 9, 1944 - Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. When Alice Walker was eight years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot ...Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. When Alice Walker was eight years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident. In high school, Alice Walker was valedictorian of her class, and that achievement, coupled with a "rehabilitation scholarship" made it possible for her to go to Spelman, a college for black ...  Show more  Show lesswww.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/
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| 1960 | 1960 - Hurston, who died in 1960, was posthumously hailed as the black Faulker; the writer Alice Walker claimed that no book was more important to her than ''Their Eyes Were Watching God.'' It is fitting, then, that Oprah Winfrey -- the nation's one-woman African ...Hurston, who died in 1960, was posthumously hailed as the black Faulker; the writer Alice Walker claimed that no book was more important to her than ''Their Eyes Were Watching God.'' It is fitting, then, that Oprah Winfrey -- the nation's one-woman African-American studies department, as well as its most visible proponent of American literature -- would choose to make the first movie of ''Their Eyes Were Watching God,'' which has its premiere Sunday on ABC. Reading this ... Show more Show lessquery.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E0DC103DF937A35750C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=& pagewanted=print
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| 1973 | 1973 - Thirteen years later in 1973, Alice Walker discovered Hurston's unmarked grave and introduced Hurston's work to a new generation of readers and scholars. Since then, the Hurston revival has restored her position in American literature as a writer who movingly ...Thirteen years later in 1973, Alice Walker discovered Hurston's unmarked grave and introduced Hurston's work to a new generation of readers and scholars. Since then, the Hurston revival has restored her position in American literature as a writer who movingly portrays an African–American culture that was on the verge of disappearing, gender relationships that feature women as equal to men, and characters who exhibit "racial health," in the words of Alice Walker. Show more Show lesspegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~zoraneal/
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| 1982 | Jun 1982 - I also sensed that ''The Color Purple'' was going to be ground zero at a Hiroshima of controversy. In June 1982, Gloria Steinem, in a profile of Alice Walker published in Ms., had written about an ''angry young novelist,'' male and implicitly black, who had been ...I also sensed that ''The Color Purple'' was going to be ground zero at a Hiroshima of controversy. In June 1982, Gloria Steinem, in a profile of Alice Walker published in Ms., had written about an ''angry young novelist,'' male and implicitly black, who had been miraculously tamed by Alice Walker's writing. This, Miss Steinem said, was ''a frequent reaction of her readers who are black men.'' But she then went on to question the thoroughness, integrity and motivation of all ... Show more Show lesswww.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/specials/walker-story.html
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| 1983 | Apr 16, 1983 - By HERBERT MITGANG. Etched in Alice Walker's memory is that summer day in 1966 in Greenwood, Miss., when she was a civil-rights worker. A man came up to her in the motel where she was staying -it hadn't been cleared as a safe place for blacks, and particularly for a black woman talking ... www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/specials/walker-civil.html
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| 1985 | Dec 20, 1985 - That Alice Walker's novel was filmed at all as a major motion picture is surprise enough, considering the recent treatment of black girls and women in American movies. During this last summer, of dozens of teenage movies, there wasn'ta single black female face to be found. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/25086596.html?dids=25086596:25086596&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+20%2C+1985&author...
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| 1989 | Apr 27, 1989 - By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT. If Alice Walker's celebrated and prize-winning earlier novel, ''The Color Purple,'' had a glaring flaw, it was Nettie's letters from Africa, which tended to a certain monotonous didacticism. Alas, this shortcoming is magnified a thousandfold in Ms. ... www.nytimes.com/1989/04/27/books/books-of-the-times-alice-walker-stresses-man-s-cruelty.html
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| 1992 | Jun 21, 1992 - Alice Walker's title is in part ironic, taken from an anthropologist's observation in Africa that "Black people are natural, they possess the secret of joy, which is why they can survive the suffering and humiliation inflicted upon them." The secret Walker writes of in this book is ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24420027.html?dids=24420027:24420027&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date...Alice+Walker...
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| 2005 | Nov 21, 2005 - When Scott Sanders was thinking about turning The Color Purple into a Broadway musical, he knew he had to go first to author Alice Walker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1982 novel. That was eight years ago. Since then, Sanders and Walker, who is listed as an adviser to the ... www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_47/b3960099.htm
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| 2006 | Aug 1, 2006 - ... ... Clint Eastwood, architect Frank Gehry, the Hearst family, AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho, tennis star Billie Jean King, conservationist John Muir, the Packard family, Ronald Reagan, astronaut Sally Ride and author Alice Walker. A formal induction ceremony is planned for Dec. 6. ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/01/BAGFLK8OKG1.DTL&type=printable
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