Time Line for Alice Walker, Writer of "The Color Purple"

·1944: February 9, Alice Malsenior Walker is born to sharecroppers, Willie Lee and
·1952: At the age of eight, Alice is accidentally blinded by one of her brothers while playing a game of "Cowboys and Indians."
·1952-58: Alice is ostracized as an outcast because of her scar. To deal with her feelings of loneliness, Alice begins to read and write poetry.
·1958: At the age of fourteen, while visiting her brother Bill in Boston, Alice is taken to a hospital to have the cataract in her eye removed. She becomes confident and her life is transformed.
·1960: Alice graduates as valedictorian from her high school class.
·1961: Alice Walker is awarded a scholarship to attend the historical African-American woman's institution, Spelman College.
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