2015年1月8日 · Had Alice Walker not been blinded in one eye, she might never have become a writer, said Tim Teeman in the London Times. Growing up in poverty in rural Georgia, the Pulitzer Prize–winning...

Towards the end of the summer in 1952, at the young age of eight years old, Walker suffered the eye injury that would change her views, both literally and figuratively. While she was playing cowboys and Indians with her brothers Bobby and Curtis, Curtis shot her in the right eye with a …

Alice Walker is blind in her right eye. The blindness was a result of an injury she sustained when she was eight years old. She had been playing a game with one of her brothers, who accidentally shot a dart in her eye. The eye got infected and she was permanently blinded.

2025年1月17日 · In 1952, one of Alice’s brothers accidentally shot her in the right eye with a BB gun. The incident left her permanently blind in that eye, especially after a week’s delay in medical attention because her family did not own a car. Eventually, a layer of scar tissue formed over her eye, making her self-conscious and a target for bullies.

At eight years old Alice sustained an eye injury that caused her to go blind in one eye, during the time of recovery she grew fond of reading and writing. In 1961 Walker attended Spelman College, after two years she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College, during that time Walker dealt with many painful events.

At the age of eight, Alice Walker was accidentaly injured by a BB shot gun in the eye by her brother, and she became blind in one eye. Her injury caused her to stop with normal childhood activities, and she began to write poetry instead. She is now an internationally recognized novelist, short-story writer, poet and political activist. Alice ...

She suffered a serious eye injury at the age of 8 by being shot by a BB pellet while playing with her brothers. A white scar around her right eye made her really self-conscious and led her to isolate herself from much of the world.

At the age of 8, she was accidentally shot in the right eye with a BB gun while playing with her brothers, resulting in permanent partial blindness. This injury had a profound impact on her, leading her to turn inward and begin writing.

At 8, she was injured in her eye after her brother played with a BB gun, causing her permanent blindness in one eye. The mark on her eye made her an easy target to her classmates, so she turned to poetry for comfort.

2022年9月26日 · At the age of 8, she was shot in the eye by a BB Pellet by her brothers and subsequently blinded in that eye; she cites this injury and the visible scar tissue as her reason for being “shy and timid” (John O’Brien Interview).