Facts about Alice Walker

• I am the eighth and last child of Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant Walker.
• Playing cowboys and Indians with my older brothers Curtis and Bobby, Curtis accidentally shot me in the eye with a BB gun.
• I subsequently attended the only high school open to blacks in segregated Eatonton, Butler-Baker High, graduating in 1961 as class valedictorian.
• I also developed important friendships with two teachers, the historians Howard Zinn and Staughton Lynd.
• Recieved a blessing from the Dalai Llama.