Rebecca Walker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rebecca Walker
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Nov 17, 1969(1969-11-17)
Age	55
Birthplace	Jackson
Country	United States
Birth City	Mississippi
Horoscope	Scorpio

Rebecca Walker Biography

Rebecca Walker is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on November 17, 1969 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Feminist writer and activist notable for winning the Women of Distinction Award from the American Association of University Women. Her books include To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism and What Makes A Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future.

Her mother, Alice Walker, wrote The Color Purple.

Rebecca Walker (born November 17, 1969, as Rebecca Leventhal) is an American writer, feminist, and activist. Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism, and the coiner of the term “third wave”, since publishing a 1992 article on feminism in Ms. magazine called “Becoming the Third Wave”, in which she proclaimed: “I am the Third Wave.”

When she was 15, she decided to change her surname from Leventhal to Walker, her mother’s surname. After high school, she studied at Yale University, where she graduated cum laude in 1992. Walker identifies as Jewish and Black, which is also the title of her memoir, published in 2001.

She was raised by her parents in New York and San Francisco. Her mother, Alice Walker, is also a famous author. Walker has a son, Tenzin, with her partner Glen.

Rebecca Walker Net Worth

Rebecca Walker is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rebecca Walker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1992 and founded a non-profit organization to register voters.

She won the Feminist of the Year Award from the Fund for the Feminist Majority.

Born Rebecca Leventhal in 1969 in Jackson, Mississippi, she is the daughter of Alice Walker, an African-American writer whose work includes The Color Purple, and Melvyn R. Leventhal, a Jewish American civil rights lawyer. Her parents married in New York before going to Mississippi to work in civil rights. After her parents divorced in 1976, Walker spent her childhood alternating every two years between her father’s home in the largely Jewish Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York City and her mother’s largely African-American environment in San Francisco. Walker attended The Urban School of San Francisco.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Rebecca Walker Dating?

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In her memoir Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (2000), Walker explores her early years in Mississippi as the child of parents who were active in the later years of the Civil Rights Movement. She also touches on living with two parents with very active careers, which she believes led to their separation. She discusses encountering racial prejudice and the difficulties of being mixed-race in a society with rigid cultural barriers. She also discusses developing her sexuality and identity as a bisexual woman.

Facts & Trivia

Rebecca Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rebecca Walker celebrates birthday on November 17 of every year.

Her 2007 memoir Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After A Lifetime of Ambivalence explores her life with a stepson and biological son against a framework of feminism. She discusses traditional pregnancy topics, such as diet and preparing for labor. She encourages young women to understand that motherhood is possible even when they have a career or if they resist it because of having had a difficult childhood. She says the book addresses the “work versus motherhood” trade-off that women of her generation and younger face after growing up in a social landscape that believes women must make a choice in order to have children. She has said she was inspired to write the book by the birth of her son, Tenzin Walker. Her rearing of him has changed some of her views on motherhood and family bonds. The book also revealed Walker’s “tempestuous” relationship with her mother, Alice Walker; the two did not speak for a number of years as Rebecca was critical of how her mother viewed motherhood and treated her as a child.

Why was Alice Walker estranged from her daughter?

They are not as beloved as they thought they were.” Walker declines to talk about her estrangement from her daughter, Rebecca, who accused her in print of neglect , always putting her needs as a writer ahead of her responsibilities as a parent.

Is Rebecca Walker related to Alice Walker?

One of those is author, lecturer and mother Rebecca Walker. She also happens to be Alice Walker’s daughter. And she’s written about being a modern day mama in her book “Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence.” Rebecca, welcome back to the show.

How old is Rebecca Walker?

52 years (November 17, 1969)

Does Alice Walker have a daughter?

Rebecca Walker

Who is Alice Walker's girlfriend?

Partner