Alice Walker Driving Tour

Explore the life of popular author Alice Walker with the Alice Walker Driving Tour, a premier chance to see all the major landmarks of this legendary American author’s life. Alice Walker is most known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, though she was a highly accomplished woman outside of that feat as well.

Learn all about her trials, tribulations, and many successes on the self-guided drive, the stop-spots including Wards Chapel A.M.E, the spot in which she was baptized, as well as the adjoining Cemetery. You will, of course, see her home, as well as Grant Plantation, her mother’s birth spot. There is no better way to explore Eatonton and the life of Alice Walker than with this historic heartland tour of Madison Avenue, one of the most overall insightful tours in the area.