Poetic colors

Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, to sharecropper parents. She gained international acclaim as the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982 for her novel *The Color Purple*, which explores the struggles of Black women in the rural South. Walker has authored numerous works of fiction, poetry, and essays, while advocating for civil rights, womanism, and human rights causes.