| LC control no. | n 79109131 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3573.A425 |
| Personal name heading | Walker, Alice, 1944- |
| Variant(s) | Walker, A. (Alice), 1944- Leventhal, Alice Walker, 1944- וואקר, אליס, 1944־ アリスウォーカー, 1944- |
| Located | California |
| Birth date | 1944-02-09 |
| Place of birth | Eatonton (Ga.) |
| Affiliation | Spelman College Sarah Lawrence College Wellesley College University of California, Berkeley Yale University |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Poets Civil rights workers Educators |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Once, 1968. Alice Malsenior Walker, c1988. IMDb, May 22, 2009 (Alice Walker; b. Feb. 9, 1944, Eatonton, Georgia, USA; writer, producer) They were women then, c2001: caption (A. Walker) African American National Biography, accessed September 18, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Walker, Alice; Walker, Alice Malsenior; fiction writer, civil rights activist, educator, poet, essayist; born 09 February 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, United States; scholarship to Spelman College, Atlanta; transferred to Sarah Lawrence College, New York; worked for the New York City welfare department; accepted position at Wellesley College, New England, where she designed and taught the first-ever course in black women's writing; won Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and moved in northern California (1977); won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award (1983) for The Color Purple; taught at Berkeley and Yale; sought to educate the world about the crime of female genital mutilation; currently lives in Mendocino, California) |
| Associated language | eng |
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