ged her to attend Sarah Lawrence she decide to accept the challenge. In Sarah Lawrence, Walker enjoyed the teaching of poetry by Muriel Ruykeyser and writer Jane Cooper who nurtured her interest and talent in writing.What did Alice Walker do to make her a famous writer? It all started during her senior year in Sarah Lawrence, where she realized that she was pregnant. She was so frightened because she didnt know how to tell her parents. Walker thought about committing suicide at one time, but with help from a classmate she was able to have a safe abortion. While recovering from the depression, she wrote a short story titled To Hell with Dying. Her teacher Muriel Ruykeyser sent the story to publisher and to the African-American poet Langston Hughes; the story was later on published when she was 21 years old. She graduated Sarah Lawrence in 1965. She later on fell in love with a Jewish law student named Mel Leventhal. Mel encouraged Walker to write. She continued her writing, also accepted a teaching position at Jackson State University and she published her first volume of poetry, Once. Walker finished her first novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Since the beginning of her writing career she has written 16 books, including five novels, several collections of essays, short stories, childrens books, and poems. She discusses topics such as spousal abuse, fear of death, female sexuality, and incest (Whitaker 86). In 1973 she published her first collection of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women and her second volume of poetry titled Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems. The thing she did to make her famous, as a writer was that she wrote stuff that she believed in and would not change anything just because of criticism about her thoughts.What obstacle did she have to go through to become a popular writer? Since the time she started to write novels, it was a segregated time. She was in civil rights m...
