St.

Marys College for Teachers Education

Paliakara, Thiruvalla

POWER POINT PRESENTATION

On the
Biography of
Alice Walker
Presented by:
Reshmy Nair
Optional: English
Reg. no:

ALICE WALKER

PERSONAL DETAILS
Name

: Alice Malsenior Walker

Birth

: February 9, 1944

Place

: Putnam County , Georgia, US

Father

: Willie Lee Walker

Mother

: Minnie Lou Tallulah

Genre

: African- American Literature

Spouse

: Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal

OCCUPATION
Novelist
Short

Story Writer

Poet
Political

Activist

NOTABLE WORKS
COLOUR PURPLE
The Colour Purple is a
1982 epistolary novel by
American Author Alice
Walker that won the 1983
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
and the National Book
Award for Fiction. It was
later adapted into a film
and musical of the same
name.

Everyday use
Everyday Use is a widely
studied
and
frequently
anthologized short story by
Alice Walker. The story is told
in first person by Mama, an
African
American
Women
living in the deep south with
one of her two daughters.
The
Story
humorously
illustrates the differences
between Mrs. Johnson and
her shy young daughter
Maggie, who both still adhere
to traditional black culture in
Rural South.

Possessing the secret of

joy
Possessing the secret of Joy
is a 1992 novel by Alice
Walker that tells the story of
Tashi, an African women and a
minor character in Walkers
earlier novel The Colour
Purple. The Novel is told in
many different voices, which
are the characters in the
novel. The novel explores
what it means to have ones
gender culturally defined and
emphasizes that, according to
Walker Torture is not culture.

The temple of my
familiar
The temple of My Familiar is a
1989 novel by Alice Walker. It
is an ambitious and multinarrative novel containing the
interleaved
stories
of
Arvedya, a musician in search
of his past; Carlotta, his Latin
American wife who lives in
exile from hers; Suwelo, a
black professor of American
History who realizes that his
generation of men have failed
women; Fanny, his ex-wife
about to meet her father for
the first time.

meridian
Meridian is a 1976 novel by
American author Alice Walker. It
has been described as Walkers
meditation on the modern civil
rights.
Set in the 1960s and 1970s,
Meridian centers on Meridian
Hill, a student at the fictitious
Saxon College, who becomes
active in Civil Rights Movement.
Walker wrote this novel at a time
when many young black people
were steering from the tenets of
non-violence
and
civil
disobedience.

In search of our
mother's garden
Published in 1983, In Search
Of Our Mothers Garden is a
collection composed of 36
separate pieces written by
Alice Walker. In addition to
writing about womanhood and
creativity, Walker addresses
subjects such as nuclear
weapons, anti-Semitism and
the Civil Rights Movements.

Awards and Achievements

The

Color Purple won the prestigious

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 as well as
the American Book Award.

Walker

also won the 1986 O. Henry Award

for her short story Kindred Spirits,
published in Esquire magazine in August of
1985.

THANK YOU