The Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Alice Walker, considers her legacy as she approaches her 70th year.
Walker told the Associated Press, "I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. But I do feel it's helpful if you're thinking about the coming generations to leave your work in a form that people can relate to."
Walker was interviewed for the documentary Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, scheduled to air this Friday. The PBS American Masters series discusses exceptional American artists. Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar interviewed Walker for the documentary, according to PBS. Parmar was interested in speaking with the woman who said that “ignorance is our greatest adversary.” She was the first African-American woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Walker is a longtime feminist and political activist. In the documentary, Walker is filmed everywhere from rural Georgia to Rwanda to a "Freedom Flotilla" in the Middle East.
Walker’s popular book was turned into the film, The Color Purple. The movie was a great success among fans. It featured the then unknown Whoopi Goldberg. It was directed by Steven Spielberg.
The documentary, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, premieres Friday, February 7 on PBS.
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