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ALICRE WALKER
- Walker is the co-founder of Wild Tree Press, a feminist publishing company in Anderson Valley,
California. She and fellow writer Robert L. Allen founded it in 1984.
- Walker’s first novel, “The Third Life of Grange Copeland”, was published in 1970.
- Her 1975 article “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston”, helped revive interest in the
work of Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston inspired Walker’s writing and influenced her
subject matter.
- In March 2009, Walker and 60 other female activists from
the anti-war group Code Pink traveled to Gaza in response
to the gaza War. Their purpose was to deliver aid, to meet
with NGOs and residents, and to persuade Israel and Egypt
to open their borders with Gaza.
- vWalker was disinvited in 2013 from giving a speech at the University of
Michigan, reportedly because a donor to the university disapproved of her
views on Israel. On her website, Walker argued that “women must be in
control of our own finances.
- “Beauty in Truth”, a documentary film about Walker’s life directed by Pratibha
Parmar, premièred in March 2013.
- Resources attached to Her published a series of collections of short stories,
poetry and other writings. His work is focused on the struggles of blacks,
particularly women, and their lives in a racist, sexist and violent society. Walker
is an important figure in liberal politics.
- Resources attached to Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in the small
rural community of Eatonton, Georgia, southern United States. She was
the youngest of oit brothers.
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