艾丽丝·沃克是美国当代文坛杰出的黑人女性作家。她出版了大量描写黑人妇女为争取政治、经济、性别和种族平等而斗争的小说。艾丽丝·沃克1944年2月9日出生于南方佐治亚州的一个佃农家庭,父母的祖先是奴隶和印度安人,艾丽丝是家里八个孩子中最小的一个。1961年艾丽丝获奖学金入亚特兰大的斯帕尔曼大学学习,正赶上美国民权运动的高涨时期,她即投身于这场争取种族平等的政治运动。1962年,艾丽丝·沃克被邀请到马丁·路德·金的家里做客。1963年艾丽丝到华盛顿参加了 Alice Walker is an outstanding black female writer in the contemporary American literary world. She has published a large number of novels describing the struggle of black women for political, economic, gender and racial equality. Alice Walker was born on 9 February 1944 to a sharecropping farm in southern Georgia, where her parents were ancestors of slaves and Indians, and Alice was the youngest of eight children in the family. Studying at the University of Sparman in Atlanta in 1961, Alice was awarded a scholarship to catch up with the upsurge of the civil rights movement in the United States. She is engaged in this political campaign for racial equality. In 1962, Alice Walker was invited to be guest at Martin Luther King’s home. Alice joined Washington in 1963