She dedicated this book to her daughter
, and saw it as a legacy to her. In preparing it for publication she found it hard to work with the more personal and revealing pieces.
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
AW
bore her daughter, Rebecca Grant Leventhal
. On her birth certificate a clerk pencilled correct beside the racial labels for her parents (Negro and White respectively).
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
When AW
moved north in 1971 she took her daughter with her while Mel Leventhal
stayed with his work in Mississippi. Rebecca
was seriously ill during her winter in Massachusetts, and returned in summer 1972...