After this traveling she returned to the Spelman College to start her junior year, but she was offered a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence University. At this university her interest in writing was born and her talent was discovered.
Alice Walker started travelling again to Africa and Europe and went back to Sarah Lawrence University for her senior year. She then found out she was pregnant and started to write poetry to express her feelings and her worst fears, for she was not happy with her pregnancy.
After her graduation she returned to Georgia and fell in love with a law student, who was, just like she, demonstrating for civil rights.. She went to New York City with him, where he was attending law school.
Alice Walker won an essay contest and won a writing fellowship at the prestigious MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.
She married the law student and worked as a history teacher. She became pregnant again and was happy this time, because her husband wouldn’t need to go to the Vietnam war. Unfortunately, because being so sad about Martin Luther King’s death, who always did so much for the civil rights, she lost her unborn child.
She luckily became pregnant again and her daughter was born in the same week that Alice Walker finished her first novel.
She accepted a teaching position at Wellesley College and introduced her students to African- American women writers, of which she was one. Fairly inspired by one of the writers she discovered, she started to write fervently. In 1976 her marriage ended.
She wrote a lot in the years following and she lives now in California. She still loves to travel, she is a gardener and a vegetarian.
