Walker, Alice

Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century African-American writer whose works often deal with personal and family relationships and with black women in a racially oppressive society. Her highly acclaimed novel The Color Purple won a Pulitzer Prize and was adapted by Steven Spielberg for a successful film.

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Example Sentences

I see the influence of Kara Walker, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston, along with the unnamed armies of black mothers and maids working for whites to keep food on their own tables.

From Washington Post

“Oh, Walker,” Alice turned to the young reporter now, “What shall we do?”

From Project Gutenberg