Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of February 9th
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It is the 40th day of the year, leaving 325 days remaining in 2022.
The Pulitzer price winning author was known for her insightful and sometimes personal looks at the lives and culture of Black Americans, particularly woman. She was also a social activist -- after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in New York in 1965, the native Georgian returned to the south, where she worked for the NAACP in Jackson, Miss.
She also taught at Jackson State University and Tougaloo College, both in Jackson, and wrote poetry and novels.
Her debut novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, published in 1970, told the story of a Black sharecropper, husband, and father living in rural Georgia, who turns abisive towards his familty after suffering the abuses and violence from the racism of the south.
In 1982, Walker wrote and published The Color Purple, for which she won her Pulitzer, and the National Booke Award for Fiction.
The novel tells the tale of Celie, a black woman growing up in the south. The novel is often explicit; Celie, then a young teen-ager, writes a letter to god after she- is beaten and raped by her father. It continues in this vein, following Celie's hard life through her 40s.
The book was critically acclamied, but also caught the eyes of censors for its explicit language and sexual violence. It was made into ab Oscar-nominated movie and Broadway play.
Walker, who has lived in northern California since 1977, continues to write poetry, short stories, and novels examining racial and sexual tensions, exploitation of minorities, and female empowerment.
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