Two years into her education at Spelman College Alice Walker was given a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College in New York so she transferred there.
She graduated in 1965.
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While studying in East Africa Alice Walker wrote many of the poems for her first poetry book titled Once. She also wrote poetry for this book while in Sarah Lawrence College during her senior year.
After graduation Alice worked in NYC briefly and then returned south to Mississippi.
Alice Walker was a writer-in-residence from 1968 to 1969 at Jackson State University, as well as at Tougaloo College from 1970 to 1971.
Alice taught at the University of Massachusetts in the fall of 1972 and then became an editor of MS.
Magazine.
Alice Walker's second novel titled Meridian was released in 1976.
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It was based on civil rights movement activists.
In 1982 Alice Walker published her novel The Color Purple. It became a best seller and was adapted into film by Steven Spielber