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Profession
Poet
Age
79 years old
Zodiac
Aquarius
Born in
Eatonton GA
About
African-American poet and author who is best known for her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel, The Color Purple. Her other literary works include Meridian (1976) and Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973).
Family
She was born one of seven siblings to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. In 1967, she and Melvyn Roseman Leventhal became the first interracial couple to legally marry in the state of Mississippi. They divorced in 1976. Her daughter, Rebecca Walker, is also a writer.

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