Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born Feb 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she published the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels Meridian (1976) and The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970). In 2007, Walker donated her papers and archive material, to Emory University. The collection also contains a scrapbook of poetry compiled when Walker was 15, entitled Poems of a Childhood Poetess. In 2013, Alice Walker published two books, The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way. The other was a book of poems entitled The World Will Follow Joy Turning Madness into Flowers.

Her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages, and her books have sold more than fifteen million copies. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.