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1944- . US poet, novelist, critic, and essay
writer. She was active in the US civil-rights
movement in the 1960s and, as a black woman,
wrote about the double burden of racist and
sexist oppression that such women bear. Her
novel The Color Purple 1983 (film, 1985) won
the Pulitzer Prize. Born in Eatonton,
Georgia, she also wrote the novels The Third
Life of Grange Copeland 1970, Meridian 1976,
and The Temple of My Familiar 1989. Walker's
collections of poems include Once 1968 and
Revolutionary Petunias 1973; her short
stories and essays are collected in Love and
Trouble: Stories of Black Women 1973 and In
Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist
Prose 1983.