Alice Walker / White, Evelyn C.

Alice Walker's life story which took her from Georgia to New York, from poet to novelist, and from country girl to political sophisticate.

Presents a biography of Alice Walker, the first African-American woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, discussing her early life, the effects of a disfiguring accident on her thinking, her marriages and daughter, her involvement in the civil rights movement, and the development of her writing career.