African-American writer and feminist, Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia in the United States on February 9, 1944. She is known for her Pulitzer award winning novel, The Color Purple. At an early age, she was blinded by her brothers temporarily for shooting her eye with a toy gun. Walker is also famous for admitting that she is a lesbian. Some of her works like The Color Purple have female homosexual themes. Her other novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, tells us about the African ritual of castrating girls so as not to
enjoy sex. Alice Walker has contributed a lot of literary works and ideas to help us understand better the situations of African-American women.
