Born on February 9th, 1944, in Eatonton, GA, Alice Malsenior Walker is a civil rights activist, women's rights activist, and an author. The youngest daughter of sharecroppers, Alice Walker grew up poor. With her mother, whom worked as a maid to help support her family of 8 children. Around the age of 8 Walker suffered a injury to her eye when she was accidentally shot in the eye by a BB Gun while playing with her brothers. The accident left Walker's right eye with white scar tissue which made Walker fell self-conscious about her visible mark. This prompted Alice to begin shying away from much of public life leading her to spend most of her time reading and writing poetry. One of Walkers early works include “Beauty... When the Other Dancer is the Self” in which Walker makes many comparisons to her life after to being shot in the eye and how it both changed her life and helped her become who she is during the time of
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In her novel Walker tells of how she dealt with being blinded in one eye as a child, and how her accident which at the time seemed severe assisted her with shaping her life as a writer, feminist, and civil rights
In her novel Walker tells of how she dealt with being blinded in one eye as a child, and how her accident which at the time seemed severe assisted her with shaping her life as a writer, feminist, and civil rights