(Example) Alice Walker: Author, Activist, Women's Rights Activist, Civil Rights Activist (1944–)

Born in Eatonton, Georgia

Sep 2, 1944

The youngest of 8 children. Her parents, Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant, were sharecroppers (tenant farmers who give part of their crop as rent).

Aged 2

1946

Publishes her novel The Color Purple

1982

The Color Purple wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1983