[1] Essence, February 1996: "I am bisexual. I just live my life. I don't think I have to phone in and tell everybody." See also Aida Edemariam, "Free Spirit", The Guardian, 23 June 2007.
Husband: (m. 1967, div. 1976)
Daughter: Rebecca Walker (feminist, actress, b. 1969)
Slept with: Tracy Chapman (according to Aida Edemariam of The Guardian)
University: Spelman College (two years, transferred)
University: Sarah Lawrence College (1965)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1983 for The Color Purple
National Book Award for Fiction 1983 for The Color Purple
Humanist of the Year 1997
Ms. Editor
Kucinich for President
Peace Action 50th Anniversary Honorary Host Committee (2007)
Voters for Choice
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom "Sponsor"
Missing Eye shot by brother with BB gun
Shot
Abortion
Risk Factors: Lyme Disease
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Fidel (2-Aug-2001) · Herself
Author of books:
Once (1968, poetry)
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970, novel)
Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973, poetry)
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973, short stories)
Meridian (1976, novel)
The Color Purple (1982, novel)
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983, essays)
The Temple of My Familiar (1989, novel)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992, novel)
By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998, novel)
AKA Alice Malsenior Walker