num_pages: 538
description: A full-length portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer draws on letters, journals, and interviews to discuss her birth into a family of Georgia sharecroppers, the childhood accident that left her blind in one eye and sympathetic to human suffering, her activism during the 1960s, and her literar
language: English
title: Alice Walker: A Life
titlecomplete: Alice Walker: A Life
genres: Literature, History, Feminism, African American, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 284
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company