From Voices From the Gaps, an instructional site from the University of Minnesota focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color, the page on Walker includes a brief biography, a useful bibliography, and a list of links to other related sites.

BIOGRAPHY
Alice Walker (b. 1944). Born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of sharecroppers, Walker was educated at Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College. She has been deeply involved in the civil rights movement, working to register voters in Georgia and on behalf of welfare rights and Head Start in Mississippi. She also worked for the Welfare Department of New York City. She has taught at Wellesley and Yale and been an editor of Ms.

Her nonfiction works include a biography for children, Langston Hughes: American Poet (1973); numerous contributions to anthologies about African American writers; and a collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983). Her novels, all dealing with the African American experience in America, include The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1973), Meridian (1976), The Color Purple (1982), which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Temple of My Familiar (1989), and Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).

Her short stories are collected in two volumes, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) and You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (1981). Most recently, she has published Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete (1991); Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women (with Pratibha Parmar), and The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult: A Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film, The Color Purple, Ten Years Later (1996).