Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 by Walker, Alice
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 by Walker, Alice

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000

From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie...
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Author: Alice Walker
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 by Walker, Alice

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000

BD$48.83
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 by Walker, Alice

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000

BD$48.83
Author: Alice Walker
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women's activist, and intellectual.

For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world.

In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, defying laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; writing her first novel; the trials and triumphs of the Women's Movement; erotic encounters and enduring relationships; the ancestral visits that led her to write The Color Purple; winning the Pulitzer Prize; being admired and maligned, sometimes in equal measure, for her work and her activism; and burying her mother. A powerful blend of Walker's personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend.

Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 04/12/2022
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.60w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781476773155


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/31/2022
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2022
Booklist 02/15/2022 pg. 13

About the Author
Alice Walker is a distinguished author and activist who has written dozens of books, including novels, poems, essays, short stories, and children's books. She was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel The Color Purple, which also won the National Book Award in 1983. Walker's other books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. More than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages. As an activist, Walker focuses on issues of inequality, poverty, and social injustice.

Valerie Boyd is arts editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in Book, Ms., The Oxford American, The Washington Post, and African-American Review. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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