Alice Walker
Birthday
1944/02/09 (81 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Eatonton, Georgia, USA
Also know as
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
Biography
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. The book became a bestseller and was subsequently adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as a 2005 Broadway musical totaling 910 performances. Over the sp...Read more
Acting
(2004) Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
as Self
(2008) In Prison My Whole Life
as Self
(2013) Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
as Self
(2013) Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
as Self
(2023) Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
as Self
(2024) The World According to Allee Willis
as Self
(2024) Daedalus
as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
(2015) Yemanja: Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil
as Narrator
(1991) A Place of Rage
as Self
(2019) Renegade: The Life Story of David Icke
as Self
(2019) Flannery
as Self
(1977) Kudzu
as Self/Author
(1983) Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock
as Self