Birthdate: February 9, 1944

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Eatonton, Georgia, United States

Author Alice Walker is best known for her National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple. She is credited with coining the term womanist, to mean feminist of color. Her marriage with Melvyn Roseman Leventhal was the first official interracial marriage in the state of Mississippi.