Alice Walker
About
Biography
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Writer (Feature Film)
Producer (Feature Film)
Misc. Crew (Feature Film)
Cast (Special)
Misc. Crew (Special)
Life Events
1970
Published debut novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland
1973
Short story "Everyday Use" included in collection of writings "In Love and Trouble"
1976
Second novel Meridian released
1982
Wrote breakthrough novel The Color Purple; received 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Award for Fiction
1983
Coined term "womanism" in debut non-fiction book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
1985
Steven Spielberg directed critically acclaimed feature adaptation "The Color Purple," starring Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover
1989
Wrote story for short film "Behind God's Back"
1993
Made feature producing debut with documentary "Warrior Marks"
2003
With director Bruce Schwartz, co-wrote short story adaptation "Everyday Use"
2005
"The Color Purple" debuted as hit Broadway musical produced by Scott Sanders, Quincy Jones, and Oprah Winfrey
2011
Published The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir
2013
Documentary on Walker's life, "Beauty in Truth," is released
