She was born on February 9, 1944 and was born from Minnie Lou Grant Walker and Willie Lee Grant Walker.

Her childhood was wild, When she was eight years old her brother shot her with a bb gun and caused her to loose her vision in one eye. It was by accident there were playing a game that had a gun in it. Alice’s family is her mother Minnie Lou Grant Walker and father was Willie Lee Grant Walker. Her parents were poor croppers but made their family wealthy of spirit and love. Her family is Cherokee, Scottish and Irish. Alice’s great great-great grandmother Mary Poole was a slave forced to walk to Georgia form Virginia with a baby in her arms. Then she met a man named Mel Leventhal who was a Jewish civil rights lawyer. She married him and became the first legally married inter-racial couple in Mississippi. While being married they got threaten by the Ku Klux Klan and then they got divorced eight years later. Her great grand mother on her mother’s side was mostly Cherokee Indian and Alice is proud of her cultural inheritances.  

She went to school in Atlanta, Georgia. Before leaving for college her mother her three special gifts They were a sewing machine for self-sufficiency, and a suitcase for independence and a type writer for creativity. She received her bachelor arts degree and got a scholarship at Sarah Lawrence College in 1965.  Sarah Lawrence is in New York and while there her junior year she went to Africa as an exchange student and got a scholarship at Spelman. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement and has spoken in the Women’s movement, Anti-apartheid movement, and the anti-nuclear movement. She was also against the female genital mutilation and stared her own publishing company, which was the (Wild Trees Press). 

Her adult life was she got pregnant and had a baby girl and named it Rebecca. She also worked on lots of her most popular books now out today. IF she didn’t work on them they wouldn’t be out or some people wouldn’t have interesting things to read.  She was invited to Martin Luther King’s house in nineteen sixty-three (1963) and it was her freshman year in college. In nineteen sixty-two she traveled to Washington D.C. to take part in the March on Washington for jobs. It was her senior year in and Alice found out she was pregnant. She didn’t want to have a baby yet and she didn’t want her parents want to know that she was pregnant and they didn’t. She went so far of being stressed out that she wanted to commit suicide. She slept with a razor under her pillow for several weeks, then she got help from one of her classmates. She got a safe abortion from the help of her classmate and her parents didn’t find out. From the depression and anxiety she wrote a short story called To Hell With Dying.  Then she met a man named Mel Leventhal they got to know each other then they got married. She found out that she was pregnant and she wanted this pregnancy though but sad to know she lost it, she had a miscarriage. She lost the baby because Alice had found out that Dr. King had been slain. She went to his funeral in Atlanta, Georgia and after she come back home to where she lived she found out that she had a miscarriage.  She taught at Jackson State University. In one of her novels that she published received literary praise and criticism. They talked about it because she talked about men beating up on their love and the public.

She has wrote a lot of books. Her most famous one is The Color Purple, To Hell With Dying, Once, The Third Life Of Grange Copeland, A Life, Freedom Writer, Everyday use, Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Light of my Father’s Smile: A novel, The Temple of My Familiar, Playing Cards: Alice In Wonderland, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women, The Way Forward is with a broken heart, Now Is The time to open your heart and Anything We love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism. Wrote some poems they are Gray, I Said to Poetry, and The Old Men Used to Sing.

She has interesting books and poems that are very good to read. I think if you don’t like reading than you would like her books because they would have you off the edge of your chair. And you would began to like me, I don’t like reading period but if I have a good book than I’ll read it. For me a book with a good cover and it grabs my attention than the book must be good so I would choose that book to read.