Alice Walker was "born in Eatonton, Georgia, on February 9, 1944, she was the youngest of eight children..." (Source 8) Alice and her father, Willie Grant, " …at first [she had a] strong and valuable [relationship]…” (Source 10), then when she joined the civil rights and feminist movements their relationship became strained “Walker attended schools segregate..." (Source 7) when she was younger and "...she remembered having extraordinary teachers who encouraged her to believe that the world she was aspiring to really existed." (Source 7). One of the most memorable events of Walker in her childhood was when "... a BB gun accident that left her blind in one eye at the age of eight." After high school Walker went to Speleman College on a full scholarship in 1961 and later she transferred to Sarah Lawerence College in New York. “In 1965, Walker met and later married Melvyn Roseman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer.” (Source 11) They married on March 17, 1967 in New York City. "Later that year the couple moved to Jackson, Mississippi, becoming "the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi." (Source 11) Together Alice and Melvyn had their first child, "...Rebecca, in 1969, who she described in 2008 as "a living, breathing, mixed-race embodiment of the new America they were trying to forge." (Source 11). Walker completed her first novel just days before going into labor with her first daughter Rebecca. During the time she was writing and caring for her newborn baby she was threatened by the Ku Klux Klan and became more isolated especially because she was a black writer (Source 3, p.34) “Walker's first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland . , was published in 1970. In 1976, Walker's second novel, Meridian, was published. You haven't lived it or heard people describe that kind of life, you can't imagine it. You can just take Walker's words and hear them instead. (Source 12) In my opinion, the color purple was an acceptable book because it contained some good life values ​​and good stories, but for the most part it was disturbing and graphic which I liked in this book about keeping your loved ones as close as possible , whatever happens. The bond between Celie and Nettie was unbreakable, and they kept it that way even when they went decades apart through missionary life in Africa, when Celie was reunited with her long-lost children, and when Harpo's wife beats him. Warren, Nagueyalti Alice Walker, MA: Salem, 2013. Print.