Alice Walker
“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”
Born in 1944, Alice Walker is an acclaimed American author. Best known for her novel The Color Purple, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, her books focus on the lives of black women in the deep south during the 1930s. Her work has touched generations of readers of all ages and ethnicities.
