A Conversation with Alice Walker

Author Alice Walker is a native of Eatonton and a member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her 1982 novel "The Color Purple," which also earned a National Book Award. She has written six other novels, four collections of short stories, four children's books and volumes of essays and poetry. Her first collection of poetry, "Once," was published in 1968, followed by her first novel, "The Third Life of Grange Copeland," in 1970. Throughout her public life, she has been an international activist for civil and human rights and a forceful advocate for women and girls.

Alice Walker visits Athens and the University of Georgia as the Delta Chair for Global Understanding, presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts in partnership with the Institute for African American Studies. She will join Valerie Boyd, Associate Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, for a public conversation in this Delta Chair community event. Dr. Boyd is currently editing Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: the Journals of Alice Walker.

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

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