Alice Walker
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Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and several volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award, and has been honored with the O. Henry Award, the Lillian Smith Award, and the Mahmoud Darwish Literary Prize for Fiction. She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2006 and received the Lennon Ono Peace Award in 2010. Her work is published in more than two dozen languages around the world.
