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1. What honors and awards have Alice Walker won? 2. Where and under what circumstances was Walker born? 3. Name and provide the publication data for Walker`s first published essay.4. Read and summarize her classic essay, In Search of Our Mothers` Gardens? .....

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1. What honors and awards have Alice Walker won?
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Color Purple (1983) (first black woman).
National Book Award (First black woman)
O. Henry Award for "Kindred Spirits" 1985.
Honorary Degree from the California Institute of the Arts (1995)
American Humanist Association named her as "Humanist of the Year" (1997)
The Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
The Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman`s Club of New York
Induction to the California Hall of Fame in The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts (2006)
2. Where and under what circumstances was Walker born?
Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the youngest of eight children, to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. Even though her parents earned not enough money, they were enthusiastic in terms of educating Walker in school. When she was young, she lost one of her eyes by his brother’s BB gun shot. This accident changed her personality from out-going to shy and this is worst event in her childhood.

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