The James Logan Courier

By Milto Ungashe, Courier Staff Writer

Audrey Niffenegger’s debut novel The Time Traveler’s Wife is a beautiful tale of the love shared by Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire, and their struggle to be with one another despite the bounds of time.

Henry DeTamble is an ordinary librarian who suffers from a rare, out-of-the-ordinary genetic disorder known as Chrono-Displacement that causes him to travel involuntarily through time. Clare Abshire meets him when she's six as a result of his time traveling. She's an artist that unsuspectingly falls in love with him eventually.

Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African-American author and feminist who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for The Color Purple.

Early life
Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, United States; as well as being African American, her family has Cherokee, Scottish and Irish lineage. After high school, Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated in 1965 from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers (Bronxville postal zone), New York. During her junior year, she spent a summer as an exchange student in Uganda.

Watch "I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan" - Author, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own Words, an hour-long interview of Alice Walker by Amy Goodman, streaming free from www.democracynow.org.

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