Time line ---- Alice Walker.
÷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.
÷1961-63:During her time at Spelman, Alice participates in civil right's movement as an activist.
÷1963: She leaves Spelman College, which she finds too puritanical to attend Sarah Lawrence, a liberal arts college in New York City.
÷1964: After her junior year at Sarah Lawrence, Alice travels abroad during the summer to become an exchange student in Uganda.
÷1965: Walker returns to the south to work in voter registration and promoting welfare rights in Georgia.
÷1967: Alice falls in love with Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal who she marries on March 17, 1967. They move to Mississippi in becoming the state's first legally married interracial couple in history.
÷1967: Alice Walker publishes her first short story, "To Hell with Dying," based in reaction to her depression.
÷1969: Alice's work in Georgia helps her to see the effect poverty on relationships between black men and women.
÷1969: With the help of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Walker finishes The Third Life of Grange Copeland, three days before her daughter, Rebecca Grant's birth.
÷1969: Becomes a...