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Born February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, GA
Alice Walker was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her third novel, The Color Purple (1983), becoming the first Black woman to win the prestigious award. The book has been adapted into a lauded Broadway musical and two acclaimed films. A prolific poet, essayist, and short-story writer, Walker also co-founded Wild Trees Press. Her memoir, The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses, & Babe, A Memoir, was published in 2011. A documentary about her life called Beauty in Truth was released in 2013.