Emory University To Open Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Alice Walker's Archives

The literary archive of Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor Alice Walker will be opened to the public for the first timesince she placed them at Emory University two years ago.

By: Associated Press | WSAV-TV
Published: April 06, 2009

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The literary archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Alice Walker will be opened to the public for the first time
since she placed them at Emory University two years ago.
The Atlanta-based university will open the archive starting
April 23 with a daylong symposium featuring feminist Gloria
Steinem, historian Howard Zinn and a lecture by Walker.
Her archives include journals, drafts of her fiction and letters
from friends and family. It also includes early drafts of her book
"The Color Purple," which won a Pulitzer in 1983.
Walker is a native of Eatonton, about 80 miles southeast of
Atlanta.
She announced in 2007 that her archive would be kept at Emory,
but the memorabilia has been sealed since then so that librarians
could catalog it.