艾丽丝·沃克于1944年出生于美国佐治亚州,17岁进入斯帕尔曼大学学习,时值美国的民权运动蓬勃发展时期,沃克随即投身于反对种族歧视、争取种族平等的运动之中,十多年后她在任教的威尔斯利大学首设妇女文学的相关课程与研究,并担任《女性》杂志的编辑。 Alice Walker was born in Georgia in 1944, entered the University of Spearman at the age of 17, when the civil rights movement in the United States boomed. Walker immediately devoted himself to fighting racial discrimination and fighting for racial equality. More than a dozen Years later she began teaching and researching women’s literature at the University of Wales, where she was teaching, and was editor of Women’s Magazine.